Space Quotes Ipsum

There is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. a 20% commercial discount and 2% cash discount (net 30 days) resulting in a total of $312,421.24. a disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. 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... all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... all of a sudden, space isn't friendly. 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. all we need to ask is where do they come from. 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 echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. an analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. 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 thanks for putting me on relay, houston. and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. 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. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. apollo soyuz.

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 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 single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... all this enlarges the human horizon... and deposited in a friend's safe... and next, for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. and the only bad thing was the person that i made the bet with didn't pay off..

He'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... there is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. a circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until earth could be reverse-colonized from mars. a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. 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?". air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all right. and a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. and darkness was upon the face of the deep... and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and it's been a long way, but we're here. and just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. 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 we're all going to get a chance to make some contribution. and yet it moves. and, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..