Space Quotes Ipsum

Astronomy is written for astronomers. a few million years ago there were no humans. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. after the apollo 13 recovery, grumman aerospace corporation (designers and builders of the lunar module) sent a spoof invoice a441066 to north american rockwell (designers and builders of the command and service modules) for towing the rest of apollo 13 around the moon and home to earth. al is on the surface. all we need to ask is where do they come from. 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 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 it's the saddest moment of my life. 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 this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. and twinkle on the milky way, 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 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. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they're going to light the bottom*and doesn't get a little worried*does not fully understand the situation. armstrong spoke it at a rate of 35 milliseconds*ten times too fast for it to be audible." neil armstrong issued a statement saying:.

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 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 mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. a truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. all of a sudden, space isn't friendly. all this enlarges the human horizon... and as we know now, and as i pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the space shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying american dollar bills as has ever been devised by man. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and so the debate started. and the only bad thing was the person that i made the bet with didn't pay off. 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 this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. and this is exploration at its greatest. are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on earth as life? it is in this that lies the peculiar interest of mars..

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 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 new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. 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. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. 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 refractive power, another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo..