Space Quotes Ipsum

He'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... 'tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt. a martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until earth could be reverse-colonized from mars. 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 sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. and deposited in a friend's safe... 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 makes its circuit to the other; 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, as we leave the moon at taurus- littrow, we leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind..

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 feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a few million years ago there were no humans. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. all that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... an undevout astronomer is mad. 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 just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe..

He'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... 'tis not too late to seek a newer world... this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. 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 mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... 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. 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 civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. all kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. all of the people involved in the program, to my knowledge, felt challenger was quite ready to go and i made the decision, along with the recommendation of the team supporting me, that we launched. 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 don't forget one in the command module... and for 50 years, people have been wrong... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. 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 that within a century after his death the telescope was invented, and that prediction verified, by galileo,*i am not without hope that we may, even here and now, obtain some accurate information concerning that other world which the instinct of mankind has so long predicted. and the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space. 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 generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. and we have been that way for thousands of years. and when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that mankind played an active and not merely a passive role*that we were the discoverers, not the discovered. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space..