Quotes About Space

By 2017, Star Wars had barely made it past the concept stage.

It's not always the smartest person who makes a good astronaut. It's personality. You need to be able to live with someone for a long time—be unflappable and easy to get along with because you're confined in a small space for years.

Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up. In

Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up.

The largest black hole that could have evaporated since the big bang would have to have been smaller than an atomic nucleus.

la materia le dice al espacio cómo curvarse, y el espacio le dice a la materia cómo moverse.

Astronomers think much of Earth's oceans could have been formed by comets striking our planet and depositing their water on Earth's surface.

Had Herschel succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.

A starry message was gently descending from space, infusing us all with a veritable firmware upgrade of our collective capacity to care.

Views of Earth from space transform global perspectives for the better, I would say. But evaluating and judging individual humans from a distance hardly ever ends well. The brush strokes with which we paint and characterize the views of others tend to be broad and without nuance, leaving us susceptible to bigotry and prejudice.

A perspectiva cósmica nos lembra que no espaço, onde não há ar, uma bandeira não tremula - um indício de que talvez agitar bandeiras e explorar o espaço não conbinam.

Interplanetary space is so not-empty that Earth, during its 30 kilometer-per-second orbital journey, plows through hundreds of tons of meteors per day—most of them no larger than a grain of sand. Nearly all of them burn in Earth's upper atmosphere, slamming into the air with so much energy that the debris vaporizes on contact.

Perspektywa kosmiczna przypomina nam, ?e w przestrzeni pozaziemskiej, gdzie nie ma powietrza, flaga nie zaÅ'opocze Ã¢â'¬â€œ co wydaje siÄ™ wskazówkÄ…, ?e by? mo?e wymachiwanie flagami i eksploracja kosmosu nie idÄ… w parze.

When Nichols was asked by NASA to be part of the publicity campaign to recruit astronauts, her insistence that the astronaut corps include members of all races and genders helped create the diversity of humans in space today.

excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted rest in peace sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements, an occasional part of the journey, if you're lucky. PEACE is a space you move through very rarely, and very briefly-but your not allowed to stay there. you have to keep moving, and go do what you do. because you can...

This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.

At the Bauhaus, Josef Albers wrote a friend for whose apartment he was designing furniture, "An empty room is always the best.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.

I love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.

Everest is how it is right now. We have to fix ropes up there; we have the commercial expeditions. If you don't like that, go on another mountain or choose another part of the mountain. There's still space for everybody.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

People think when you're moving in Zero-G, it's like moving in jelly. But it's not. You're completely free to move however fast as you want.

I sometimes think this is just my life: I go to mow the lawn and sometimes go to space. But when other people say what you've done is really impactful, that's really humbling.