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Space Quotes
"We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks."
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"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone."
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"I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
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"If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
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"The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event."
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"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder."
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"Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive."
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"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
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"In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."
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"Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space."
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"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
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"Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up."
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"The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. "The Hammer stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart."
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"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
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"It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!"
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
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"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
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"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."
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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall."
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"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."
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"In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization."
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"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
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"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"
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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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"NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts."
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"Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space."
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