1. - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 12:37 - 2 notes

  2. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

    — John F. Kennedy

    (Source: er.jsc.nasa.gov)

  3. - Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 12:59 - 3 notes

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  5. - Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 06:59 - 4 notes

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  7. - Monday, March 26, 2012 - 22:11 - 1 note

  8. “Somebody had to go—and they happened to pick me!”

    — Alan Bean, fourth man to walk on the Moon

  9. - Monday, March 26, 2012 - 22:02 - 3 notes

  10. “I think if you do something that’s drastically different, like flying to the Moon and coming back again, everyone tells you how important it is, how wonderful it is and how important, important, important, then by comparison a lot of other things that used to seem important don’t seem quite as much so. And I’m not saying that I’m able to face life with greater equanimity because I’ve flown to the Moon, but I try to. And maybe some of our terrestrial squabbles don’t seem as important after having flown to the Moon than they did before.”

    — Michael Collins

  11. - Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 00:14 - 1 note

  12. “President Dwight Eisenhower had resisted being drawn into what seemed to him a shallow weightlifting competition. He saw manned space travel as “a complex and costly adventure” without useful purpose. When NASA sent proposals for the Apollo Moon mission to the White House for approval, he vetoed the idea. Presidential advisers erupted in laughter when someone suggested that, after reaching the Moon, NASA would probably want to go to Mars.”

    — Gerard DeGroot

    (Source: telegraph.co.uk)

  13. - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 18:26 - 6 notes

  14. “

    Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.”

    Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

    ”

    — John F. Kennedy

    (Source: er.jsc.nasa.gov)

  15. - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 18:25 - 1 note

  16. “The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school.”

    — JFK on the benefits of the space program

    (Source: er.jsc.nasa.gov)

  17. - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 18:23 - 3 notes

  18. “Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it—we mean to lead it.”

    — John F. Kennedy

    (Source: er.jsc.nasa.gov)

  19. - Friday, December 2, 2011 - 21:03 - 77 notes

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