“...a spacecraft is passing and some human is up there hefting a lift-bar with her legs, willing her muscles not to give in to the seduction of weightlessness, nor her bones to birdness. Else that poor spacefarer will be in all kinds of trouble when she lands back on earth where legs, once more, are very much a thing. Without that hefting and sweating and pressing she would survive the blazing heat and tumble of her re-entry only to be pulled from her capsule and fold like a paper crane.” SpaceFateMen And WomenTime TravelLove Hate Book:Orbital Source: Orbital
“The thoughts you have in orbit are so grandiose and old. Think a new one, a completely fresh unthought one. But there are no new thoughts. They're just old thoughts born into new moments- and in these moments is the thought: without the earth we are all finished.” PhilosophyEarthSpaceEnvironmentThoughtAstronauts Book:Orbital Source: Orbital