Space Quotes Ipsum

Conceptual sketch of a liquid fuel by tsiolkovsky, 1903 gaia's children might never die out--provided they move into space. i don't know what you can say about a day when you see four beautiful sunsets... it speaks of the possibility of life. it was what it was... it's fantastic. just as the moon hovers above the earth without falling down to it, so a man there can hover over a chasm which would be frightening to earthlings. let us follow many environmentalists and regard the earth as gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). man looks aloft, and with erected eyes maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things. my friends they were dancing here in the streets of huntsville when our first satellite orbited the earth. not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the earth. the moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space i shall never fully know. the question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. this isn't the work of one man or even a group of men..

But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe. i study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. it's fantastic. no one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. not just earth, or mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. onto the surface of the moon. our knowledge concerning their gaseous envelopes is our only limit is life. remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race. ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and i consider it the same in space exploration. spacewalk the spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle. the universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. when we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. you never know subliminally in your brain where things come from....

But sometimes i hit london. it evolved during the conduct of the flight and i decided what the words would be while we were on the lunar surface just prior to leaving the lm. it is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. it's isolated, and there is no resupply. since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures. space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new. space shuttle ten thousand saw i at a glance the universe is a pretty big place... there are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more. there are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet..