102 Quotes About Space-travel

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?

THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond.

She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.

Earth wants to be comfortable. The more comfortable someone is, a society is, the less likely they are to seek change, even positive change.

Look, kid. [...] You've got to face it, we're all spoons, ok?

They may not appreciate our point of view. We might frighten them, or bore them, or make them uncomfortable. This does not mean we should go away.

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

In retrospect, it was silly to think that the experience of traveling in space could be approximated by a repurposed walk-in freezer. To find out what would happen to a man alone in the cosmos, at some point you just had to lob one up there.

Польоти в далекий космос потрібно здійснювати поступово й обережно, крок за кроком, поповнюючи знання та використовуючи їх для впевненого підкорення космічного простору.