As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain?… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark… — William Anders Copy Share Image
Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . .… — James E. Webb Copy Share Image
The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in… — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth:… — Alfred Worden Copy Share Image
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo,… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens… My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits… — Henry Joy McCracken Copy Share Image
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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