Star Gazing Quotes - Page 8

• OK, let's get this mother out of here.

  Gene Cernan

  Mother, Apollo

  "Ten key things about... space travel" by Anna Blackman, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

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• How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?

  Gus Grissom

  Moon, People, Apollo

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• We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

  Roger B. Chaffee

  Fire, Apollo, Burning

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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• Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Risk, Apollo, Information

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• Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.

  William Anders

  Moon, Apollo, Green

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• I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

  Charles Duke

  Apollo, Proud, Program

  "ALSEP Off-load". Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Journal, www.hq.nasa.gov. 1996.

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• It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eerie, Apollo, Strange

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Alarms, Apollo, Program

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• It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Apollo, Care

  The New York Times, July 21, 1969.

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• Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

  Gene Cernan

  Dream, Technology, Keys

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• I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Appreciate, Flying

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• UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

  Carl Sagan

  Interesting, Cases, Ufo

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• For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, People, Generations

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.6, New Word City

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• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.

  Robert A. Baker

  Stars, Journey, Flying

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• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

  Arthur Koestler

  Lying, Fate, Technology

  1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.

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• Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Military, Real, Men

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• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

  Gordon Cooper

  Thank You, Father, Able

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• The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Doe, Ufo, Extraterrestrial

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• I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis.

  Walter Riedel

  World, Ufo, Bases

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• The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

  Neil Armstrong

  Regret, Reading, Years

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• The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Silence, Sound

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• Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space, Long, Survival

  "Stephen Hawking: Space Exploration Crucial To Human Survival". The Canadian Press Interview, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 18, 2011.

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• This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

  Hermann Oberth

  Goal, World, Life Is

  Hermann Oberth (1957). “Man Into Space: New Projects for Rocket and Space Travel”

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