“Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel.”— Laurel Wamsley, npr.org
“And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no, no, no I'm a rocket man Rocket man Burning out his fuse up here alone”— Elton John, open.spotify.com
“So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.”— William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert, Jack Swigert, Kevin Bacon, imdb.com
“We didn't fly 86 million miles to track down a box of Band-Aids, Colonel.”— Tim Minear, Joss Whedon, Hands of Blue, Dennis Cockrum, imdb.com
“The view of Earth is spectacular. The shuttle is pretty close to Earth. It only flies between 200 and 350 miles above Earth. So it's really pretty close. So we don't see the whole planet, like the astronauts who went to the moon did. So we can see much more detail. We can see cities during the day a…”— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com
“I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. The space shuttle is a better and safer rocke…”— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com
“I liked launch better. It's much more exciting. And it's very different from any experience you can have on earth. Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same—it's not even close to the same. It's a very exciting experience. Landing is very exciting, t…”— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com
“I wasn't really scared. I was very excited, and I was very anxious. When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion—because if something goe…”— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com
“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“I wouldn’t dream of getting on a spaceship, It’d scare the shit out of me….I’m scared going down the end of the garden.”— David Bowie, amazon.com
“I think we should build a permanent human settlement on one of the poles of the moon. It’s time to go back to the moon, but this time to stay.”— Jeff Bezos, youtube.com
“Nobody knew how far innumerable planets with cottages and cows, might be situated in outer or inner space: ‘inner,’ because why not assume their micro-cosmic presence in the golden globules ascending quick-quick in this flute of Moët or in the corpuscles of my, Van Veen’s bloodstream, or in the pus…”— Vladimir Nabokov, Van Veen, amazon.com
“We're always wondering whether there might be life or intelligence on other planets, way up in the stars. But we never ask ourselves about the infinitely small. Maybe it could from there, from a universe that's even smaller than protons, electrons, and quarks.”— Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Travel across great distances in outer space may not be the only way to reach worlds that are different from our own, seemingly remote in time and space. Moreover, it may be unnecessary to restrict this search using methods based upon a view of reality limited to what is physical and measurable. It…”— Rick Strassman, amazon.com