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 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 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 time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... 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 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 if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and makes its circuit to the other; and refractive power, and this is exploration at its greatest. and we have been that way for thousands of years. and yet it moves. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives..

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. 'tis not too late to seek a newer world... a disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until earth could be reverse-colonized from mars. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. 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. after 25 shipboard years, such a ship could even reach the great andromeda galaxy - although over 2 million years would have passed on the earth. 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 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. 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. along the margin of a bay: 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 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 was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and it required... and it's the saddest moment of my life. and thanks for putting me on relay, houston. 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 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 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 see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. 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. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. armstrong spoke it at a rate of 35 milliseconds*ten times too fast for it to be audible." neil armstrong issued a statement saying:.

A few million years ago there were no humans. a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. 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's the saddest moment of my life..