Space Quotes Ipsum

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. 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 feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. above me i saw something i did not believe at first. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. 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. along the margin of a bay: 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. and next, for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. 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 you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in 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. and, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives..

A moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. 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. an unknown fault in electrical equipment inside one of the service module's oxygen tanks had produced an explosion during the routine stirring operation, which in turn caused the loss the oxygen in both tanks. 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 god saw that it was good." and from the crew of apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a merry christmas. 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. apollo soyuz.

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 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. 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 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. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. and then, a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to mars. and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. 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. 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. arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..