“The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.” AgeNextEnvironmentDesignWalkingMoonProgramMajorityNext TimeStar GazingSpacecraftShuttle Program Author:Eileen Collins
“Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.” WayLongWalkingMoonSurfaceAlsLong WayStar Gazing Author:Alan Shepard
“As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.” FirstsMadeStepsWalkingMoonSurfaceMade ItFirst StepsApolloStar GazingTaurus Author:Gene Cernan
“It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.” LooksSpaceWalkingMoonStar GazingVenting Author:Jim Lovell
“The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.” PeopleWorldGivingLandWalkingMoonLimitsDullReachingFrontiersStar Gazing Author:Isaac Asimov
“Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsMadeLyingCertainUniverseStarsEffortRolesMillionsMankindPolicyWalkingMoonActiveScalesPracticalsContactCosmicPassiveStar GazingFirst ContactIsolationism Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.” WorldDifferentDiesWaterAnimalSunWalkingMoonDistanceSizeVegetablesBeing ThereStar GazingFlourishingOne DirectionCollision Author:Democritus
“If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.” IfsMenWorldKindDifferentUnitedCreativeGreaterSkyWalkingMoonUnionsBeastRegionsAtomsTribesLiving ThingsOther WorldsStar GazingCreative PowerWild Beasts Book:De rerum natura Source: De rerum natura
“Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures.” MayIdeasBodyStarsCommonOpinionSunPlanetsWalkingMoonCreaturesWarmGlobesEnlighteningStar GazingLiving Creatures Author:William Herschel
“We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.” WorldBelieveMayHas BeensSeemsWalkingMoonVisionariesStar Gazing Author:Lord Kelvin
