Space Quotes Ipsum

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. a disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. 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 new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. 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. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. all kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... 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. and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. 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 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 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 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. 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..

'tis not too late to seek a newer world... a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. a truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and refractive power, and then, a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to mars. 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 we are mistreating it..

This may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. 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. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. 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. and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and next, for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. 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..