#space

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

#being #changed #creatures #dependent #diminish

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#everyday #explained #need #open #open spaces

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#another #any #close #enough #flowers

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#early #elementary #elementary school #first #i

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#cannot #connect #early #educator #fantasies

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#announced #excited #flight #go #had

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#done #general #general public #get #going

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#also #am #class #conducting #earth

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#always #am #dreamed #flight #go

Space is going to be commonplace. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#going #space