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Orbit Quotes by Robert Crippen
- Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
- We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
- You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
More Orbit Quotes
- It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney
- 'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke
- A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to… — James Hutton
- This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities… — K. Eric Drexler