Space Quotes Ipsum

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. a companion with whom i was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,*though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,*that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... after about two minutes, then it's too late really, because if you were to lift off after two minutes after the normal landing, mike collins is going around and around and he's too far ahead for you to catch up to him in a reasonable time, and he's going to have to do some other maneuvers so that you can catch up with him. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! an observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time. an undevout astronomer is mad. and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. and twinkle on the milky way, and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. 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. armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk..

A satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. all that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... and if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids..

A chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. 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 planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. and a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. and how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the earth itself. and if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. and then, a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to mars. and this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. and yet it moves. apollo 13 towing invoice.