Space Quotes Ipsum

All right. 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. 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 the enthusiastic support of its people. and yet it moves..

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. "what do i see?" i replied. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. after i give lectures*on almost any subject*i am often asked, "do you believe in ufos?". all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one days in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. 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! and darkness was upon the face of the deep... 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 god saw that it was good." and from the crew of apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a merry christmas. 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 we are interested in mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. 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 it required... and other parts of the world have been doing fine. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. and the only bad thing was the person that i made the bet with didn't pay off. 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 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 we more like your romantic soul. 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. and, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. anyway, the reply was: apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies..

A tear-drop of green. a universe that come from nothing in the big bang will disappear at the big crunch. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. and so it was in august of '69 before the fight when i made this bet: that i would say something that they would know that the united states government wasn't big brother telling us what to say. and we're all going to get a chance to make some contribution. and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars..