Space Quotes Ipsum

There is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. 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 man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... 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. along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. 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 just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. 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 it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. and, as we leave the moon at taurus- littrow, we leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic..

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. 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 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 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 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. after i give lectures*on almost any subject*i am often asked, "do you believe in ufos?". after the apollo 13 recovery, grumman aerospace corporation (designers and builders of the lunar module) sent a spoof invoice a441066 to north american rockwell (designers and builders of the command and service modules) for towing the rest of apollo 13 around the moon and home to earth. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... all we need to ask is where do they come from. 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. along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. 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. 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 a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. and deposited in a friend's safe... and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and so it was in august of '69 before the fight when i made this bet: that i would say something that they would know that the united states government wasn't big brother telling us what to say. and the only bad thing was the person that i made the bet with didn't pay off. and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. and this is exploration at its greatest. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. 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. anyway, the reply was: apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. 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. apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. 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..

A hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until earth could be reverse-colonized from mars. a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... a tear-drop of green. a-ok full go. 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. amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and makes its circuit to the other; apollo soyuz.