# Space Quotes! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564 "2015-07-19T01:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/41 "2015-07-20T04:49:47Z")
“Give my big hearts to Maude, Ray. Dismember me for Harold’s choir. Tell all the Foys on Sortibackenstrete that I will soon be there.” ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/42 "2015-07-20T08:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/43 "2015-07-20T09:49:11Z")
“God speed, John Glenn.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/44 "2015-07-20T10:34:29Z")
“Родина слышит, Родина знает, Где в облаках её сын пролетает…” (“The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky.” A song by Shostakovich, whistled by Gagarin during Vostok I’s reentry.) “For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won’t drive us down to dust again.”—Leslie Fish, _[Hope Eyrie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDqBkyCTSJk)_ ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/45 "2015-07-20T12:30:53Z")
“To infinity and beyond” - Buzz Lightyear ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/46 "2015-07-20T13:59:27Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Space is big. Really big… I’m shocked it took 11 posts to get this in. 🙂 It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere, I’m all alone…more or less. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/47 "2015-07-20T14:18:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. Anaxagoras (500– 428 BC) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/48 "2015-07-20T14:19:22Z")
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/49 "2015-07-20T14:25:11Z")
We came in peace for all mankind. (followed by the shaking of moon dust as the alien invasion fleet passes overhead, in the opening to _Independence Day_). ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/50 "2015-07-20T14:52:52Z")
“Mars Needs Women.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/51 "2015-07-20T14:54:44Z")
It’s a cookbook!! We come in peace! We come in peace! Resistance is futile! _“Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!”_ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/52 "2015-07-20T15:01:08Z")
Log Entry Sol 6 I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked. Six days into what should be the greatest two months of my life, and it’s turned into a nightmare. I don’t even know who’ll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe a hundred years from now. For the record . . . I didn’t die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did, and I can’t blame them. Maybe there’ll be a day of national mourning for me, and my Wikipedia page will say, “Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/53 "2015-07-20T15:03:34Z")
These are the voyages… ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/54 "2015-07-20T15:56:04Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “Houston, we have a problem!” FWIW, the original quote from the mission was “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/55 "2015-07-20T16:03:07Z")
“That’s it, man. Game over, man. Game over, what the fuck are we supposed to now, huh, what are we gonna do?” ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/56 "2015-07-20T16:19:53Z")
It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. Alan Shepard ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/57 "2015-07-20T16:23:38Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > FWIW, the original quote from the mission was “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” Now that you brought it up, it looks like everybody’s gotten it wrong. [Apollo 13 Chronology](http://history.nasa.gov/Timeline/apollo13chron.html) > [@](#): > > 55:55:20 - Swigert: “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” > > 55:55:28 - Lousma: “This is Houston. Say again please.” > > 55:55:35 - Lovell: “Houston, we’ve had a problem. We’ve had a main B bus undervolt.” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/58 "2015-07-20T16:36:01Z")
Someone asked Alan Shepard what he was thinking about just before lift-off. “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/59 "2015-07-20T17:41:14Z")
Tom Wolfe quotes him instead as saying “Dear God, please don’t let me fuck up.” ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/60 "2015-07-20T19:27:51Z")
“Light Speed is too slow! We’re gonna have to go right to… Ludicrous Speed!” And here’s a pretty esoteric quote on space, but if you’re a hockey fan you should get it immediately… “[Solar system is so humangous big](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-FvRyQOlbc).” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564.md?page=4)