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The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
The arching sky is calling
We pray for one last landing --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Green Hills of Earth."
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
Under the wide and starry sky,
This be the verse you grave for me:
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
We've never lost an American in space and we're certainly not going to lose one on my watch. Failure is not an option.
"Boy, that was a real fireball of a ride," as the space capsule in which he was traveling was falling through space into Earth's atmosphere.
"There, spread out as far as I could see were literally thousands of tiny luminous objects that glowed in the black sky like fireflies. I was riding slowly through them, and the sensation was like walking backwards through a pasture where someone had waved a wand and made all the fireflies stop right where they were and glow steadily." From a Life magazine article describing his first day in space.
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
"As our knowledge of the universe in which we live increases, may God grant us the wisdom and guidance to use it wisely."
Monday February 3, 2002 - updated by request to include Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy quotes. Quotes on the occasion of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia - STS107.
We lost data and that's when we clearly began to know that we had a bad day.
The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors.
Because of their courage and daring and idealism we will miss them all the more.
Our journey into space will go on.
The same creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth but we can pray they are safely home.
We have suffered the loss of seven family members.
The loss of this valiant crew is something we will never get over. --Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator
Because the exploration of space knows no national boundaries, the loss of the Columbia is a loss to all humankind.
These seven astronauts paid the price for man's conquest of space ... and the world salutes these heroes.
The president views this as a tragedy that has touched the lives of the American people, and as a reminder of the risks of space flight. The president does not see it as connected to other events around the world.
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