“Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.” PeopleNeedsUseShowsEarthHumanityCultureSpaceBehindsAwarenessEventsPlanetsPerspectiveCivilizationDiversityVulnerableLastingMortalitySeptemberScience And ReligionShakingSomething BetterSeptember 11Springboards Author:Paul Levinson
“I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveHumansTodayEarthSpaceAliveCenturyMovementCommitmentSpeciesCosmos21st Century20th CenturyClosingFlickerAbode Author:Paul Levinson
