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. astronomy is written for astronomers. 'tis not too late to seek a newer world... a chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. a companion with whom i was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,*though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,*that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. 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 darkness was upon the face of the deep... and we have been that way for thousands of years. and yet it moves. 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. apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to earth..