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 manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918... 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. 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. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. 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. 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. and god saw that it was good." and from the crew of apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a merry christmas. and if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and twinkle on the milky way, 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..