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  1. Quote of the day:

    "I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

    Neil Armstrong
    (Aug 05, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012)
    Quote taken from an interview conducted by CBS Evening News, aired on October 14, 1968

    Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California. (Wikipedia Commons)

  2. Quote of the day:

    "Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done."

    Eugene Cernan
    ( Mar 14, 1934 - Jan 16, 2017)
    Quote taken from NASA's official Instagram account, entry by Eugene Cernan, dated December 4, 2016.

    Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan, CAPT, USN was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot, and was the last human to walk on the Moon, in 1972. (Wikipedia Commons)

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    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Me too. Another legend who walked among us is gone.

    3. Kerbinchaser

      Kerbinchaser

      RIP Gene. May we return to the Moon someday.

    4. Wildcat111
  3. Quote of the day:

    "For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

    Wernher von Braun
    ( Mar 23, 1912 - Jun 16, 1977)
    Quote attributed to his book, Space Frontier, 1967.

    Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German, later American, aerospace engineer and space architect credited with inventing the V-2 rocket for Germany during World War II and the Saturn V for the United States. He was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Word War II Germany, where he was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the SS.

    Following World War II, he was moved to the United States, along with about 1,500 other scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip, where he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1, and the Apollo program manned lunar landings. Under NASA, he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. In 1975, he received the National Medal of Science. He continued insisting on the human mission to Mars throughout his life. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      There are days when I absolutely hate the filters on this forum. Cannot use historical terms in context because they are given wacky replacement words. So much for staying true to history... :blush:

    2. Wildcat111

      Wildcat111

      Here's a request:

      Do one by Gene Cernan. He passed away yesterday, R.I.P.

    3. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Oh, yes. He kept that faith even after the war, too. My grandpa was the only person who still did Lutheran services in German in Alabama. Every Sunday, a long, black car would roll up and a couple men in trench coats and hats came in and sat in the back. They would leave before the service ended as not to interact with the people there. My grandpa or anyone else never knew who they were. It wasn't until the 70s when my grandpa was looking through a book about the Space Race when he finally figured out who they were; von Braun and a couple of his fellow rocket scientists. Pretty cool if you ask me.

  4. Quote of the day:

    "Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; …. It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony."

    Henri Poincaré
    ( Apr 29, 1854 - Jul 17, 1912 )
    Quote taken from an essay in the collection, The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincaré, 1997

    Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist by Eric Temple Bell, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

  5. Quote of the day:

    "Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods."

    Claudius Ptolemy
    (c. 100 A.D. - c. 168 A.D.)
    Quote taken from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, circa 150 A.D.

    Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek writer, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. Beyond that, few reliable details of his life are known. His birthplace has been given as Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid in an uncorroborated statement by the 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes. This is a very late attestation, however, and there is no other reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than Alexandria, where he died around AD 168. (Wikipedia Commons)

  6. Quote of the day:

    "For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space."

    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
    (Sep 17, 1857 - Sep 19, 1935)
    Quote taken from his work, The Aims of Astronautics, 1929

    Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. worir4

      worir4

      I like the quotes you post. They are all really good ones.

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.

       

  7. Quote of the day:

    "It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail."

    Robert A. Heinlein
    ( Jul 07, 1907 -  May 08, 1988)
    Quote taken from his novel, I Will Fear No Evil, originally published in 1970.

    Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time (Wikipedia Commons)

  8. Quote of the day:

    "My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star."

    Charles Francis Richter
    (Apr 26, 1900 - Sep 30, 1985)
    Quote taken from an interview with Henry Spall, for Earthquake Information Bulletin (Jan-Feb 1980), 12, No. 1 (USGS official publication).

    Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology. (Wikipedia Commons)

  9. Quote of the day:

    To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet, only one grain will grow.

    Metrodorus of Chios
    (4th century B.C.E.)

    Metrodorus of Chios was a Greek philosopher, belonging to the school of Democritus, and an important forerunner of Epicurus. Metrodorus was a pupil of Nessus of Chios, or, as some accounts prefer, of Democritus himself. He is said to have taught Diogenes of Smyrna, who, in turn, taught Anaxarchus (Wikipedia Commons).

  10. Quote of the day:

    "One of the most fundamental aspects of life is its relentless pursuit of new environmental niches to colonize. It seems inevitable that, sooner or later, living things will spread off the planet--if not us, then perhaps whatever comes after us. Seen this way, a space station need not be a tin can. It can be like the reptile's egg, the bold evolutionary innovation that contained the water and the salts of the oceans and brought them safely onto land."

    Corey S. Powell
    (1952 -             )
    Quote taken from an editorial in the Los Angelas Times, 1977

    Corey S. Powell is Editor at Large at DISCOVER magazine and the acting Editor in Chief of American Scientist magazine. He is a freelance contributor to Slate, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and Nautilus publications. (Amazon Author's Page)

  11. Quote of the day:

    There is no way back into the past; the choice, as Wells once said, is the universe - or nothing. Though men and civilizations may yearn for rest, for the dream of the lotus-eaters, that is a desire that merges imperceptibly into death. The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close.

    Arthur C. Clarke
    (Dec 16, 1917 - Mar 19, 2008)
    Quote from his book, Interplanetary Flight, 1950

    Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

  12. Quote of the day:

    "It may be that the venture into space is the product of biological determinism which impels us to explore a new environment when we are technologically ready."

    Richard S. Lewis
    (no information available)
    Quote taken from his book, Appointment on the Moon: The inside story of America's space venture, 1968

     

    1. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Just a slight book keeping note: I use several sources for these quotes. Most of the time, with the use of Wikipedia and a few good biography websites, I am able to find out much of the background information on the various authors, scientists, and others I have quoted. This author does not have much of a web presence. I am sorry about the lack of information about him, but the link in the quote sourcing will take you to Amazon, where you can view the book.

    2. Wildcat111

      Wildcat111

      Still, I love it!

  13. Quote of the day:

    In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit… only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.

    Jonathan Alter
    (Oct 06, 1957 -            )
    Quote from his editorial in Newsweek, 9 November 1998 edition

    Jonathan Alter is an American journalist, best-selling author, and television producer who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011, and has written three New York Times best-selling books about American presidents. He is a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Alter was one of the first magazine or newspaper reporters to appear on MSNBC. When the shows were on the air, he could often be heard on Imus in the Morning and The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Alter is currently an executive producer on the Amazon Studio's production Alpha House, which stars John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, and Matt Malloy (Wikipedia Commons).

  14. Quote of the day:

    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

    Isaac Asimov
    (Jan 02, 1920 - Apr 06, 1992)
    Quote taken from an interview with the BBC

    Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

     

  15. Quote of the day:

    "Many of the problems that we have today may not have solutions on Earth. The solutions may lie only in leaving the planet behind. There's no way we can avoid tearing up the countryside for ores, for fuel, for raw materials here on Earth--short of everybody dying off."

    H. Keith Henson
    (1942 -         )
    As quoted in Worlds Beyond, published by New Dimensions Foundation,1978

    Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law (Moon treaty), memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology and physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, he and his then-wife Carolyn Meinel founded the L5 Society, which promoted space colonization and which was eventually folded into the National Space Society. More recently, Henson's outspoken criticism of the Church of Scientology and subsequent criminal proceedings have gained him headlines. (Wikipedia Commons)

  16. Quote of the day:

    "There are three reasons why, quite apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first reason is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second reason is to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third reason is our spiritual need for an open frontier."

    Freeman Dyson
    (Dec 15, 1923 -                )
    Quote taken from his work, Disturbing the Universe, published in 1979

    Freeman John Dyson FRS is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Visitor of Ralston College, and a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. Atlas2342

      Atlas2342

      On a less serious note, space is cool. That's reason enough for me.

    2. Dman979

      Dman979

      The fourth reason is Matt Damon. We keep having to save him, and Earth's gotten too boring for him.

  17. Quote of the day:

    We are all tired of being stuck on this cosmical speck with its monotonous ocean, leaden sky, and single moon that is half useless. Its possibilities are exhausted, and just as Greece became too small for the civilization of the Greeks, so it seems to me that the future glory of the human race lies in the exploration of at least the solar system!

    John Jacob Astor, IV
    (Jul 13, 1864 - Apr 15, 1912)
    Quote taken from Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future, 1894

    John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family. Astor died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic during the early hours of April 15, 1912. He was among the 1,514 people on board who did not survive. He was the richest passenger aboard the Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of nearly $87 million when he died (equivalent to $2.14 billion in 2015). (Wikipedia Commons)
  18. Quote of the day:

    "The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it."

    Sir Arthur C. Clarke
    (Dec 16, 1917 - Mar 19, 2008)
    Quote from his work, The Exploration of Space, 1951

    Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. (Wikipedia Commons)

  19. Quote of the day:

    "As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define.  And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports."

    Russell 'Rusty' Schweikart
    (Oct 25, 1935 -                 )
    Quote taken from one of Apollo 9's transmissions, March 11, 1969

    Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive. He was the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo IX. Its three-person crew spent ten days in low Earth orbit testing several aspects critical to landing on the Moon, including the LM engines, backpack life support systems, navigation systems, and docking maneuvers. The mission was the second manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. monstah

      monstah

      They call it "astronaut effect" because you're supposed to have it only when you're up there, but show me a well-made movie scene of Earth (watching Gravity in a movie theater, for example), or one of DSCOVR's EPIC pictures, and my eyes water all up.

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      I'm glad I am not the only one...

  20. Quote of the day:

    "The penetration of humankind into the universe, into its study and mastery, is not an expression of the inability of human beings to grapple with earthly difficulties and problems, not flight from them, but a qualitatively new and often even unique, irreplaceable means of solving many of the most important tasks of science, technology and the economy."

    A. D. Ursul
    (1936 -      )
    Quote from his work, "The Human Being and the Universe" from the publication, Soviet Studies in Philosophy, 1978

    1. Dman979

      Dman979

      You're up late!

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Not really. When I posted it, it was around 6:00 a.m. local time (-6:00 GMT or ZULU time). I've only been up since about 4:30 a.m., went to bed shortly before midnight.

      I bought a new laptop on Tuesday and have had the fun of transferring everything from that computer to this one.

  21. Quote of the day:

    "The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose."

    Louis J. Halle
    (Nov. 1910 - May 1998)
    Quote from his essay, "A Hopeful Future for Mankind" as contained in Foreign Affairs, Summer 1980.


     

    1. Atlas2342

      Atlas2342

      Deep. I like it.

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Yup. I thought so as well...

  22. Quote of the day:

    We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

    John Glenn
    (Jul 18, 1921 - Dec 9, 2016)
    Quote attributed to a Congressional inquiry into the Challenger accident, January 28, 1996

    John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling three times. Before joining NASA, he was a distinguished fighter pilot in both World War II and Korea, with five Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. Kerbinchaser

      Kerbinchaser

      Rest in peace John Glenn. Rest in peace.

    2. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Great quote, but he died yesterday (December 8)

    3. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Yeah, I noticed I goofed that up. Unfortunately on a status update there's no edit function...just a delete option.

  23. Quote of the day:

    "Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival."

    Gerard O'Neill
    (Feb 06, 1927 - Apr 27, 1992)
    Quote taken from the book, The High Frontier, published in 1976

    Gerard Kitchen O'Neill was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. Benji13
    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      I thought so. If you think of all the benefits of mining asteroids - untapped resources! Iron, gold, platinum, rare Earth elements - all waiting to be harvested! If we consider the infrastructure that it would require, it would literally employ thousands for even the smallest space mining corporation to function. It could literally improve the standard of living for even the poorest nations AND propel us further into real human space exploration!

       

    3. Kerbinchaser

      Kerbinchaser

      Well that's neat.

  24. Quote of the day:

    "As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse."

    Johannes Kepler
    (Dec 27, 1571 - Nov 15, 1630)
    Quote contained In a letter to Galileo, 1610

    Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Yay, my favorite astronomer!

  25. Quote of the day:

    "I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!"

    Ray Bradbury
    (Aug 22, 1920 - Jun 05, 2012)
    Quote taken from Mars and the Mind of Man, published in 1973

    Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author. Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 as well as his science fiction and horror story collections The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and I Sing the Body Electric, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. (Wikipedia Commons)

     

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