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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Powell Hubble
(Nov 20, 1889 - Sep 28, 1953)
American astronomer

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It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

Gherman Stepanovich Titov
(Sept 11, 1935 - Sept 20, 2000)
Soviet cosmonaut and second man to orbit the Earth

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust
( July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922)
French novelist

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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow.

Robert Goddard
(Oct 05, 1882 - Aug 10, 1945)

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Quote of the day:

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger wait for him on the Earth… . We have said a great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but not all can be said or even imagined.

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

Quote of the day:

It all looked so easy when you did it on paper—where valves never froze, gyros never drifted, and rocket motors did not blow up in your face.

Milton W. Rosen
(July 25, 1915 – December 30, 2014)
Quote from congressional testimony in 1956

According to Wikipedia, he was a Navy engineer and project manager in the US space program between the end of World War II and the early days of the Apollo Program. He led development of the Viking and Vanguard rockets, and was influential in the critical decisions early in NASA's history that led to the definition of the Saturn rockets, which were central to the eventual success of the American Moon landing program. He died of prostate cancer in 2014.

Quote of the day:

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Wernher von Braun
( Mar 23, 1912 - Jun 16, 1977 )
As quoted from 'The Jupiter People,' Time magazine, 10 February 1958.

Quote of the day:

 "Well, nobody remembers the second and that was why I said what I said. It was based on a bet I had with somebody who felt that Neil's words had been propaganda and not written by him. And I tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. And so it was in August of '69 before the fight when I made this bet: that I would say something that they would know that the United States government wasn't Big Brother telling us what to say. So I said, "It may have been small for Neil but it was a big one for a little fella like me" and it came out close to that. And I was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. And the only bad thing was the person that I made the bet with didn't pay off."

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.
(Jun 02, 1930 - Jul 08, 1999)
Quote taken from an interview on PBS in 1971

He was Commander of  Apollo 12 and the shortest Apollo astronaut, and the third man to walk on the Moon, 19 November 1969

Quote of the day:

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Valentina Tereshkova
( Mar 06, 1937  -           )
Soviet (Russian) cosmonaut and politician.

She is the first woman to have flown in space and was whom Valentina from the Kerbal Space Program was named after.

Quote of the day:

“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”

Alan Shepard
(Nov 18, 1923 - Jul 21, 1998)
Astronaut, test pilot, and naval aviator

Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in May 1961 made the first manned Mercury flight. Shepard's craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. (Wikipedia Commons)

Quote of the day:

“Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.”

Ronald J. Garan, Jr.
( Oct 30, 1961 -           )
Quote taken from The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

Ronald John Garan, Jr. is a NASA astronaut. After graduating from State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1982, he joined the Air Force, becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1984. He became an F-16 pilot, and flew combat missions in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Before becoming an astronaut he was the Operations Officer of the 40th Flight Test Squadron. He first flew in space as a Mission Specialist on the STS-124 mission to the International Space Station. He returned to ISS on 4 April 2011 for a six-month stay as a member of Expedition 27. (Wikipedia Commons)

Last night, after grading exams for nearly three hours, I decided to complete the first of many image projects on my to-do list. I had to create 44 images, then create a mod for them to be able to be used in Nereid's Final Frontier mod.

Anyway, instead of creating a new thread for them, I just added the mod and its related post on the custom images thread I currently have... 

Quote of the day:

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

H. G. Wells
(Sep 21, 1866 - Aug 13, 1946)
Quote taken from his novel, The Time Machine, first published in 1895

Herbert George Wells—known as H. G. Wells—was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.  (Wikipedia Commons)

Quote of the day:

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”

Galileo Galilei
(Feb 15, 1564 - Jan 08, 1642)
Quote taken from a letter to fellow revolutionary astronomer Johannes Kepelr

Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, he played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and is considered as the father of He has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of scientific method", and the "father of science". (Wikipedia Commons)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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.

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)

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).

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)

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)