Star Gazing Quotes - Page 6

• The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moon, Historical, Railroads

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 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.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Moon, Men, Fire

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• The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moon, Space Flight, Aviation

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Blessed, Character

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

  Al Gore

  Moon, Space, Snakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

  Freeman Dyson

  Destiny, Space, Niche

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.305, World Scientific

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• Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Men, Years, Civilization

  Star Trek: The Next Generation (television series). This third mission statement was first used in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987). See Killian 1; Roddenberry 2; Roddenberry 3

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• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Strong Women, Stars, Land

  "What? Is! the Meaning of Life" by Dream Catcher Paul Fisette, (p. 79), 2008.

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• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Lying, Home

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• The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.

  Wernher von Braun

  Years, Space, Pay

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• The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Sunset, Eight, Blue

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• The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

  Sergei Korolev

  Unions, Soviet Union, Universe

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• Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

  Charles Duke

  Blue, Breathing, Guy

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• The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.

  Ilan Ramon

  Safety, Important, Target

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• No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

  Henry Miller

  War, Men, Space

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

  James E. Webb

  War, Moon, Space

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• A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

  Wally Schirra

  Apollo, Littles, Levity

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• Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.

  Gherman Titov

  Moon, Eagles, Walking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Message from Vostok II, www.imdb.com. August 1961.

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• The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

  Isaac Asimov

  Moon, Land, People

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• It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

  Jim Lovell

  Moon, Space, Looks

  "Day 3: 'Houston, we've had a problem'". Apollo 13 Flight Journal, history.nasa.gov. May 30, 2017.

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• As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Steps, Apollo

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• Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Long, Als

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• The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

  Eileen Collins

  Moon, Design, Age

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