Space Quotes Ipsum

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... a single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... after further development these machines will be capable of attaining such velocities that they - left undisturbed in the void of the ether space - will not fall back to earth; furthermore, they will even be able to leave the zone of terrestrial attraction. after the apollo 13 recovery, grumman aerospace corporation (designers and builders of the lunar module) sent a spoof invoice a441066 to north american rockwell (designers and builders of the command and service modules) for towing the rest of apollo 13 around the moon and home to earth. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... all the women in my life were nurses, hairdressers, or secretaries, and that's why i thought my father would not support me in being a pilot. and i felt that that was a fairly critical time, so it surprised me that during that time, neil chose to make the call to houston tranquility base that the eagle has landed. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and it required... and makes its circuit to the other; and other parts of the world have been doing fine. and then, a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to mars. and we more like your romantic soul. and you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, as if you've been born again. another explorer with a famous first*edmund hillary, first to climb mount everest*said it would have been, "better if he had said something natural like, 'jesus, here we are!'" the july 1969 edition of esquire magazine even had as its cover story famous writers discussing what the first words should be. armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to earth..

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a hostile sky. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. after a number of seconds it rose, slowly until in cleared the frame, and then at express-train speed, curving over to the left, and striking the ice and snow, still going at a rapid rate. all kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... an undevout astronomer is mad. and deposited in a friend's safe... and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero*the temperature of interplanetary space. and for 50 years, people have been wrong... and i felt that that was a fairly critical time, so it surprised me that during that time, neil chose to make the call to houston tranquility base that the eagle has landed. and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and if we are interested in mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. and then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. apollo 13 towing invoice armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk..

A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... along the margin of a bay: and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space..