Space Quotes Ipsum

"what do i see?" i replied. there is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. a circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. a tear-drop of green. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... 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. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. 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. all of the people involved in the program, to my knowledge, felt challenger was quite ready to go and i made the decision, along with the recommendation of the team supporting me, that we launched. all this enlarges the human horizon... 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. 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 deposited in a friend's safe... and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and for 50 years, people have been wrong... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. 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 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 we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. 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. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives..