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. he'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... 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. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. al is on the surface. all kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... all of a sudden, space isn't friendly. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. 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. an undevout astronomer is mad. and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and don't forget one in the command module... and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and then, a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to mars. and, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..