“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?” YearsLooksTermSpaceRiskDoorsDyingSafetyMilesFlyingFlightPlanesAirlinePassengersSpace ShuttleFatality Author:Burt Rutan
“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.” NeedsWellsLooksRunningDesireHouseSpaceLaughingDoorsSkyColdInvolvedFitJokesWindowBlowHeatNerves Author:Aimee Bender
“The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.” FirstsLooksAbleEarthHumanitySpaceViewsPlanetsMoonFirst TimeProgramOur PlanetSpaceshipsAfarSpace ProgramFallouts Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.” PeopleWorldMindBelieveLooksLongLightFallBeliefUnderstandingLosesSpaceTeachingThis WorldColorFoolDon't BelieveInsanityFar AwayFalsehoodSagePreyIncense Author:Bodhidharma
“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.” ShouldLooksFormSpaceMovementDrawsEdgesGesturesPrecise Author:Kimon Nicolaides
“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.” FirstsLooksSpaceCitiesWonderGenerationsPlanetsWalkingLuckyMoonAchievementAppreciationBrokeAccomplishmentAssuredDescendantsStar GazingAudacity Author:Walter Cronkite
“I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksStillsFeelingsWould BeAbleEarthSpaceMillionsRiskHappenedExtraordinaryAccidentsFoolishTiedStanding OutHandfulStunningSpace Shuttle Author:Colin Baker
“I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.” PeopleThinkingLooksSpacePerceptionBiggerInternationalStationsInternational Space Station Author:Marc Garneau
“Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?” IfsWayHumansLooksArtSpaceExistenceChangedInfiniteSmokeOrderlyDurationShort Time Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.” IfsThinkingNeedsHumansLooksLongEarthUniverseTermSpaceRacePlanetsHuman RaceLong TermHorizonInwardPlanet Earth Author:Stephen Hawking