102 Quotes About Space-travel

Her lips twitched, then she laughed. “You are so freaking likable.”He smiled. “I feel the same about you.”“Okay then. We’re both adults. And neither one of us is physically up to engaging in anything amorous anyway, so—”“Well,” he said with a grin, “that isn’t precisely true.”Her cheeks pinkened. “Stop making me blush!”He laughed.

He shook his head. “You’re making me revisit my opinion of Earthlings,” he admitted,Her lips turned up in a faint smile. “Then we’re even. Because you’re making me see aliens in a whole new light.

Reaching out, Lisa tentatively rested a trembling hand on his shoulder. His skin was cool and bore a light coating of perspiration. She drew her hand down over his biceps.His Adam’s apple bobbed, and something she couldn’t identify flickered in his eyes.“I’m sorry,” she said, her voice hushed while the alarm continued to blare. “Did I hurt you?”“No. It’s . . . You’re the first person who has touched me—not with intent to harm, but with kindness—in a very long time.”His words broke her heart.

One may travel into space all one wants wants only to find oneself which is paradoxically the purpose of space travel; the purpose of space travel is to remember we are not as divided as it seems and that all diversity is self engineered for the purpose of companionship, friendship, love.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

I don't mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon, I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.

I find it curious that I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the Moon so he would be able to look back and see the Earth. We all wanted to see what the Moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the Moon but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone and infinite black space.

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.