#space

And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#back #best #board #bring #commander

Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?” He shook his head. “Maybe. I don’t call it nobility, though. I think it’s our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant optimists. We’re the emotional descendents of the caveman who stood defiant in the front of the wooly mammoth. We rebuild cities at the base of Vesuvius, get back on the bicycle when we fall off, whack that hornet’s nest every spring. Humans cheer for the couldn’t be, believe in the shouldn’t be. We love causes; the harder, the more lost they are, the more we love them. Is that nobility?Maybe. Maybe it’s a pernicious genetic defect that makes our species susceptible to shared delusion. Whatever it is, it keeps life interesting. ↗

— Cassandra Davis

#space-exploration #survival #inspirational

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#colours #consider #dependence #forth #instance

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. ↗

— Maimonides

#almighty #both #comparison #existence #greatness

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#competitors #decade #dramatic #dynamic #emerged

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#every #every day #humanity #more #sees

The cosmetic is cosmic. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#junkspace #architecture

Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity. ↗

— Marino Marini

#conceived #each #extending #infinity #neither

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#additional #called #describe #details #give

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#citizen #excitement #experience #felt #important