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. 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 few million years ago there were no humans. a hostile sky. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... 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. 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 of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. all that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made... along the margin of a bay: and for 50 years, people have been wrong... and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and makes men mad. 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 enthusiastic support of its people. and we are mistreating it. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. and we're all going to get a chance to make some contribution. and yet it moves. 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. arecibo message arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service. armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to earth..