From Space Oddity:
“Here am I floating round my tin can… far above the Moon”
“Planet Earth is blue… and there’s nothing I can do.”
Nuke it/them from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.
My space capsule is full of eels.
or
Let’s go to geosynchronos orbit and throw some shit up there.
1 Liftoff.
2 ???
3 Profit!
Okay, I just made those up.
“The chances of anything coming from Mars is a million-to-one,” they said.
“Mr. President, status control on Jupiter 2. As of this moment, the spacecraft has passed the limits of our galaxy. It’s presumed to be hopelessly lost in space.”
“The [starship] Heart of Gold told space to get knotted, and parked itself neatly within the inner steel perimeter of the Argabuthon Chamber of Law.”
“If only the comet could return to the cometary halo [it would regroup and survive]. But there appeared to be something in it its path.”
Space. The final frontier.
Tractators!
Dinosaurs! On a space ship!
Let’s see what’s out there.
The stars, like dust, surround me.
"Go for throttle up … " :::Challenger explodes:::
-Albert Einstein
-Edwin Hubble
-Joseph Joubert
JEWS IN SPAAAAAAACE!
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
“I kill you now in the name of his Shadow!”
“Would you care to join me in watching a Super Nova? It is a once in a lifetime experience.”
Lone Star, I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
“Klaatu barada nikto.”
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me. _Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“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… .”
- John F. Kennedy, 1961
“To infinity…and beyond!”
Andromeda:
The universe is a beautiful place, full of wonders. And it wants to kill you.
The Right Stuff:
Our Germans are better than their Germans.
it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that’s on TV
Apollo 13:
From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle, we just decided to go.
We’ve never lost an American in space, we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
Both quotes by Carl Sagan from his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Ground Control to Major Tom…”
" No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow. " - Susan Ivanova