Space Quotes Ipsum

In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. 'tis not too late to seek a newer world... a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all of the people involved in the program, to my knowledge, felt challenger was quite ready to go and i made the decision, along with the recommendation of the team supporting me, that we launched. all that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... along the margin of a bay: an undevout astronomer is mad. and don't forget one in the command module... and if we are interested in mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. and if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and it's the saddest moment of my life. and makes men mad. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. apollo 13 towing invoice arecibo message arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. 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. after all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. 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 the only bad thing was the person that i made the bet with didn't pay off. 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 perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..

A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. 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 observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time. 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 earth was without form and void. 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. apollo 12, houston..