“NASA, ISRO, CNSA, ESA, KARI, JAXA (and more) - these represent the real democratic aspirations of humankind's endeavors of curiosity into space, whereas SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic these are the new-age posterboys of space imperialism.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Boeing is a global embarrassment!”
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.”
Source: FROM APOLLO TO ARTEMIS: STORIES FROM MY 50 YEARS WITH NASA
“While the two below tested their weightlessness, picked up samples of whatever moonie-eyed lovers looked up to, and marked up the moon’s surface with moon boot tracks, the third astronaut was left behind holding everything together.
The other thing that sprang to mind was that the moon was beautiful at night from a distance, but it surely was a lonely place up close.”
Source: Gone Crazy in Alabama
“Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“...we surrender with full faith to the unknown and the unknown will become the known revealed in its fullness of Love.”
Source: Unveiling our True Reality: with the Wisdom of the Awakened Masters
“The ISS would not be the incredibly capable orbiting research facility it is today without either Russians or Americans, just as it couldn't have been built without the Canadian arm used in its construction.”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.”
Source: Jellybean the Dragon
“E per tutto il giorno mi riempivano la testa di stronzate che volevano farmi tenere a mente, come ad esempio le equazioni per calcolare la distanza fra il posto dove ci trovavamo e quelle in cui volevano farci andare loro, e naturalmente quelle per tornare indietro; cazzate come le coordinate coassiali, il calcolo dei coseni, la trigonometria sferoide, l'algebra di Boolean, gli antilogaritmi, l'analisi di Fourier, quadrati e matrici. Mi dissero che io avrei dovuto fare da riserva al computer di riserva.”
“The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as they return to earth.”
Source: Mind In Chains