Space Quotes Ipsum

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. 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. '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 chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. 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 hostile sky. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them..

"what do i see?" i replied. we've had a main b bus undervolt. 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 little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a tear-drop of green. adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. 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 human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. 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 it's been a long way, but we're here. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and refractive power, 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. anyway, the reply was: apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. apollo soyuz.

All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... 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!.