Space Quotes Ipsum

In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. 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 good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until earth could be reverse-colonized from mars. a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. along the margin of a bay: and darkness was upon the face of the deep... and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. 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 its circuit to the other; and refractive power, and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. and we have been that way for thousands of years. and we're all going to get a chance to make some contribution. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. apollo 12, houston. apollo 16 is gonna change your image...i'm sure glad they got ol' brer rabbit here, back in the briar patch where he belongs. 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 truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. after i give lectures*on almost any subject*i am often asked, "do you believe in ufos?". and just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. and thanks for putting me on relay, houston. 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 wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. and yet it moves. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. apollo 12, houston. arecibo message.

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. "what do i see?" i replied. 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 disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a hostile sky. a tear-drop of green. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... after a number of seconds it rose, slowly until in cleared the frame, and then at express-train speed, curving over to the left, and striking the ice and snow, still going at a rapid rate. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. 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. an analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. and darkness was upon the face of the deep... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. 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. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and it's been a long way, but we're here. and other parts of the world have been doing fine. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. 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. and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. another explorer with a famous first*edmund hillary, first to climb mount everest*said it would have been, "better if he had said something natural like, 'jesus, here we are!'" the july 1969 edition of esquire magazine even had as its cover story famous writers discussing what the first words should be. anyway, the reply was: apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies..