Space Quotes Ipsum

He'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. 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 satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... a truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. all that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. and deposited in a friend's safe... 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 thanks for putting me on relay, houston. and the enthusiastic support of its people. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they're going to light the bottom*and doesn't get a little worried*does not fully understand the situation. apollo 12, houston. apollo 13 towing invoice.

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. 'tis not too late to seek a newer world... a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. a single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. a tear-drop of green. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... a-ok full go. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. an undevout astronomer is mad. 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 i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and it is this exceptionalism that drives the current scientific thirst for finding life elsewhere, for finding a cosmic mainstream of animation, even civilization, in which the earth can take its place. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. 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. and twinkle on the milky way, and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. apollo 16 is gonna change your image...i'm sure glad they got ol' brer rabbit here, back in the briar patch where he belongs..

And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the earth and all the living things it supports. a manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918... about every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. and the only bad thing was the person that i made the bet with didn't pay off. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and then, a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to mars. apollo 13 towing invoice apollo soyuz arecibo message.