“what do i see?” i replied. a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works.
a very fit consideration, and matter of reflection, for those kings and princes who sacrifice the lives of so many people, only to flatter their ambition in being masters of some pitiful corner of this small spot. after the apollo 13 recovery, grumman aerospace corporation (designers and builders of the lunar module) sent a spoof invoice a441066 to north american rockwell (designers and builders of the command and service modules) for towing the rest of apollo 13 around the moon and home to earth.
“what do i see?” i replied. there is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. a chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. a companion with whom i was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,*though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,*that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. a lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. a manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918… a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. a popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained… all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. all human exploration’s bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. all the women in my life were nurses, hairdressers, or secretaries, and that’s why i thought my father would not support me in being a pilot. aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! an analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. and don’t forget one in the command module… and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and if we are interested in mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. and it’s the saddest moment of my life. and just as jefferson sent lewis and clark to open the continent, our commitment to the moon/mars initiative will open the universe. and next, for the new century, back to the moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay. and refractive power, and so the debate started. and so this knowledge will be unfolded through long successive ages. and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you’re in space. armstrong didn’t realize the ‘a’ was not heard until after he got back to earth..
In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. a little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade. a universe that come from nothing in the big bang will disappear at the big crunch. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. an unknown fault in electrical equipment inside one of the service module’s oxygen tanks had produced an explosion during the routine stirring operation, which in turn caused the loss the oxygen in both tanks. and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and the enthusiastic support of its people..