Space Quotes Ipsum

And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the earth and all the living things it supports. "what do i see?" i replied. a disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a few million years ago there were no humans. a tear-drop of green. 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. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. 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 so the debate started. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. and the enthusiastic support of its people. and this is exploration at its greatest. 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..

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and the earth was without form and void. and we are mistreating it. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo..

A few million years ago there were no humans. adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... all right. 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. and for 50 years, people have been wrong... and if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and makes its circuit to the other; and other parts of the world have been doing fine. and refractive power, and so this knowledge will be unfolded through long successive ages. and that within a century after his death the telescope was invented, and that prediction verified, by galileo,*i am not without hope that we may, even here and now, obtain some accurate information concerning that other world which the instinct of mankind has so long predicted. 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 this is exploration at its greatest. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. apollo 12, houston. 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..