Something of less note

15 Jul 2013

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the earth.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

NASA is not about the ‘Adventure of Human Space Exploration’…We won’t be doing it just to get out there in space – we’ll be doing it because the things we learn out there will be making life better for a lot of people who won’t be able to go.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine

There can be no thought of finishing for ‘aiming for the stars.’ Both figuratively and literally, it is a task to occupy the generations. And no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.