Star Gazing Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Alarms, Apollo, Program

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Texas, Years

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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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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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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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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• We're number one on the runway.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Numbers, Apollo, Runway

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2016). “No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon”, p.146, National Geographic Books

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• There are two of them up here.

  Neil Armstrong

  Two, Apollo

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

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

  Walter Riedel

  World, Ufo, Bases

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

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Doe, Ufo, Extraterrestrial

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• I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Earth, Littles

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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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• As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.

  James Irwin

  Beautiful, Fall, Men

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• Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

  Michael Foale

  Giving, Long, Looks

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