The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station? — Gus Grissom 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
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
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
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
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
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes,… — William E. Burrows 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
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
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
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this…” quote by James Irwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/james-irwin-74067_astronaut_as-we-got-further-and-further-away-it-th_531776.png)
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