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Space Quotes
"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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"If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
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"I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
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"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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"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
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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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"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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"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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"If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation."
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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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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
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"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
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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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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
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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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"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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"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
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"It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me."
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"I think we should explore the possibility of life on Mars, and make humanity a multi-planetary species."
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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 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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"I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?"
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"Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up."
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"In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."
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"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
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"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
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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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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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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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"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
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"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
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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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"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
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"I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space."
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