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 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 circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. 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 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. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. after 25 shipboard years, such a ship could even reach the great andromeda galaxy - although over 2 million years would have passed on the earth. 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 attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. 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 deposited in a friend's safe... 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 required... and it's the saddest moment of my life. 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 this is exploration at its greatest. 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. 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. apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. 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..

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. he'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. 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. a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... after 25 shipboard years, such a ship could even reach the great andromeda galaxy - although over 2 million years would have passed on the earth. 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. 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. al is on the surface. all right. and deposited in a friend's safe... 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 it required... and it's the saddest moment of my life. and just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. and refractive power, 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 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 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 this is exploration at its greatest. and we have been that way for thousands of years. and we more like your romantic soul. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives..

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. a single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... about every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. 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 analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. 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 darkness was upon the face of the deep... and don't forget one in the command module... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. 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..