"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."

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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."

Attention

"I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us."

Military

"The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space."

People

"If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro."

Time

"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle."

Thought

"The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit."

Time

"We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts."

Love

"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."

Earth

"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."

Opportunity

"We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless."

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