Post by Kahlessa on Oct 20, 2007 9:02:44 GMT -5
(These came, appropriately enough, from Space Monkey.)
"The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age."
— Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., 'From the Moon to the Millennium,' 1999
"The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. "
— Sally K. Ride, first woman to orbit Earth aboard the Space Shuttle, 1983
"I'm hungry. I want to eat something delicious, have a beer and a cigarette. I've come back to Earth full of desires. The air tastes good."
— Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen in space, a TV journalist, first words after an unhappy eight days onboard Soyuz TM-11. 10 December 1990
"Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless
We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching;
Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful,
I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter . . .
The bond is there in my mind and memory;
Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space. "
— Alfred M. Worden, Apollo 15
"Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."
— Vitali Sevastyanov
"You're in charge but don't touch the controls. "
— Shannon Lucid, recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts told her every time they left the Mir space station for a spacewalk, 1996.
"The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's. "
— Shannon Lucid, after 6 months on Space Station Mir, 1996
"A human being is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft. . . It is also the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
— Werner von Braun
More quotes at this link: www.skygod.com/quotes/spaceflight.html
"The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age."
— Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., 'From the Moon to the Millennium,' 1999
"The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. "
— Sally K. Ride, first woman to orbit Earth aboard the Space Shuttle, 1983
"I'm hungry. I want to eat something delicious, have a beer and a cigarette. I've come back to Earth full of desires. The air tastes good."
— Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen in space, a TV journalist, first words after an unhappy eight days onboard Soyuz TM-11. 10 December 1990
"Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless
We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching;
Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful,
I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter . . .
The bond is there in my mind and memory;
Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space. "
— Alfred M. Worden, Apollo 15
"Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."
— Vitali Sevastyanov
"You're in charge but don't touch the controls. "
— Shannon Lucid, recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts told her every time they left the Mir space station for a spacewalk, 1996.
"The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's. "
— Shannon Lucid, after 6 months on Space Station Mir, 1996
"A human being is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft. . . It is also the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
— Werner von Braun
More quotes at this link: www.skygod.com/quotes/spaceflight.html