In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand;… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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