Space Quote of the Month - December 2004-January 2005:
 "The
view of the earth from the moon fascinated me--a small disk, 240,000 miles
away.....Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence don't show
from that distance...."
- Frank Borman,
Commander of the
Apollo 8 mission (first manned lunar flight).
Space Quote of the Month - November-December 2004:
Space Quote of the Month - September-October:
 "There
are three types of people in this world: people who make things happen, people
who watch things happen, and people who just wonder what happened."
- Jim Lovell,
Apollo 13/Apollo 8/Gemini 12
astronaut.
Space Quote of the Month - August-September:
 "Look
again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love,
everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,
lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of
confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and
forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father,
hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt
politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in
the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a
sunbeam."
- Carl Sagan,
astronomer, 1934-1996,
describing the Earth from 4 billion miles away,
in "Pale Blue Dot".
Space Quote of the Month - July-August:
 "Someday
in the not-too-distant future, when I listen to an earthling step out onto the surface of Mars or some
other planet, just as I listened to Neil step out onto the surface of the Moon,
I hope I hear him say: 'I come from the United States of America.'"
- Michael
Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot,
addressing the Houses of Congress,
September 1969.
Space Quote of the Month - June-July 2004:
 "New
horizons have been discovered and old boundaries pushed back. It
proves that there's never a time when we should stop dreaming. We will continue
to challenge our imagination and aim high. The ultimate frontier of space will
be a quest for mankind's highest aspirations - the opportunity for individuals,
cooperation among nations, and peace on Earth."
- President Ronald Reagan,
upon the return of the first
Spacelab mission (STS-9).
Space Quote of the Month - April-June:
"The dream is alive."
- Astronaut John W. Young,
after
landing the
first Space
Shuttle mission.
Space Quote of the Month - March-April:
 "Circling
the Earth in the orbital spaceship, I marveled at the beauty of our planet.
'People of the world! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty - not destroy it!'"
- Yuri Gagarin, first human in space,
recalling his 1961 flight.
Space Quote of the Month - February-March:
 "A
scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask
an engineer to do that."
- Gordon L. Glegg,
American Engineer, 1969
Space Quote of the Month - January-February 2004:
 "...from
Mercury to Gemini to Apollo, watching the Moon landings and everything, it was
just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me that I just thought, 'There is
no doubt in my mind that that's what I want to do when I grow up.' "
- Col.
Rick Husband, 1957-2003,
Commander of Columbia STS-107,
on what drove him to become an
astronaut.
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