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. half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. a circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. a feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a few million years ago there were no humans. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... a satellite vehicle with appropriate instrumentation can be expected to be one of the most potent scientific tools of the twentieth century. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... 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. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. 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 kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. all right. all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one days in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. 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 other parts of the world have been doing fine. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. and we have been that way for thousands of years. and yet it moves. 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. apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. arecibo message.