Space Quotes Ipsum

'tis not too late to seek a newer world... there is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. 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. an undevout astronomer is mad. 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 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 the enthusiastic support of its people. 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 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 more like your romantic soul. and you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, as if you've been born again. 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. anyway, the reply was: apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space..

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. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... 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. after further development these machines will be capable of attaining such velocities that they - left undisturbed in the void of the ether space - will not fall back to earth; furthermore, they will even be able to leave the zone of terrestrial attraction. all of a sudden, space isn't friendly. all this enlarges the human horizon... all we need to ask is where do they come from. 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, and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. 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 twinkle on the milky way, and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. apollo soyuz.

A moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. 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. a very fit consideration, and matter of reflection, for those kings and princes who sacrifice the lives of so many people, only to flatter their ambition in being masters of some pitiful corner of this small spot. and deposited in a friend's safe... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. 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 i felt that that was a fairly critical time, so it surprised me that during that time, neil chose to make the call to houston tranquility base that the eagle has landed. apollo 12, houston. apollo soyuz.