Space Quotes Ipsum

Astronomy is written for astronomers. 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 mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. 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 tear-drop of green. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. 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 a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. and if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and other parts of the world have been doing fine. and so the debate started. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. 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 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 without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. apollo soyuz arecibo message.

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. a feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a universe that come from nothing in the big bang will disappear at the big crunch. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. 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. all this enlarges the human horizon... also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. 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 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 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 just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. and makes men mad. and so this knowledge will be unfolded through long successive ages. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. and, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk. armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to earth. 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 satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. after i give lectures*on almost any subject*i am often asked, "do you believe in ufos?". all kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... 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 deposited in a friend's safe... 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..