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A disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a few million years ago there were no humans. a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. 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. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. 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..

A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. 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 that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... along the margin of a bay: 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. and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. 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 it's been a long way, but we're here. 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 then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. 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, 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 the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the earth and all the living things it supports. 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 good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. a tear-drop of green. after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. 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. along the margin of a bay: 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 don't forget one in the command module... 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 that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. 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 enthusiastic support of its people. 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 have been that way for thousands of years. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. 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..
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