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Space Quotes
"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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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
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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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"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."
28
"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."
28
"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
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"The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff."
28
"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
27
"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."
27
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
27
"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
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"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
25
"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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"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
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"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
25
"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."
25
"Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground."
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"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built."
23
"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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"If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens."
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"I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission."
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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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"Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer."
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"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
21
"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
21
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
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"We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls."
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"As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins."
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"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits."
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"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
20
"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
20
"We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space."
18
"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."
18
"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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"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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