Space Quotes Ipsum

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a hostile sky. 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 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. 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 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 as we know now, and as i pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the space shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying american dollar bills as has ever been devised by man. and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. 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 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 it's the saddest moment of my life. 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 is exploration at its greatest. 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 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. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they're going to light the bottom*and doesn't get a little worried*does not fully understand the situation. apollo 13 towing invoice armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk..

A few million years ago there were no humans. and it required... and makes its circuit to the other;. We've had a main b bus undervolt. there is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. a feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918... 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 planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. 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. 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 some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... and how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the earth itself. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. 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 thanks for putting me on relay, houston. 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 we are mistreating it. and we're all going to get a chance to make some contribution. 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. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. apollo soyuz.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. 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 circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. a disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... a single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... a universe that come from nothing in the big bang will disappear at the big crunch. 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 all, englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. an analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. and a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. and for 50 years, people have been wrong... 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 was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. 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 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 twinkle on the milky way, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. apollo 12, houston. apollo soyuz armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk..