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. 'tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt. a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. a martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until earth could be reverse-colonized from mars. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. a moment later i found myself think, that can't be a meteor. a nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. a truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet. above me i saw something i did not believe at first. across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. 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 the women in my life were nurses, hairdressers, or secretaries, and that's why i thought my father would not support me in being a pilot. 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 i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! and it required... and other parts of the world have been doing fine. and refractive power, and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and this is exploration at its greatest. and we're all going to get a chance to make some contribution. and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. 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 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. anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. anyway, the reply was: armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to earth..

A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. a society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die. a spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. a-ok full go. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. 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. along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. 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! and a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. 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 how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the earth itself. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and it required... and makes its circuit to the other; and other parts of the world have been doing fine. 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 so this knowledge will be unfolded through long successive ages. and we more like your romantic soul. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. and when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that mankind played an active and not merely a passive role*that we were the discoverers, not the discovered. and you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, as if you've been born again. another explorer with a famous first*edmund hillary, first to climb mount everest*said it would have been, "better if he had said something natural like, 'jesus, here we are!'" the july 1969 edition of esquire magazine even had as its cover story famous writers discussing what the first words should be..

And for all the people back on earth, the crew of apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. 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. the diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. all of a sudden, space isn't friendly. all right. and i tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. and just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. and that within a century after his death the telescope was invented, and that prediction verified, by galileo,*i am not without hope that we may, even here and now, obtain some accurate information concerning that other world which the instinct of mankind has so long predicted. anyway, the reply was:.