Space Quotes Ipsum

And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the earth and all the living things it supports. half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. a few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our earth, and the layout of the continents. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. a tear-drop of green. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... 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. al is on the surface. 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 right. all this enlarges the human horizon... amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. an unknown fault in electrical equipment inside one of the service module's oxygen tanks had produced an explosion during the routine stirring operation, which in turn caused the loss the oxygen in both tanks. and a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. 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 it's the saddest moment of my life. and makes men mad. and next, for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. 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. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. 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..