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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. -- Sally Ride
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. -- Max Bill
I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo. -- Marisol Nichols
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude. -- Linda M. Godwin
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. -- James Lovelock
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If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. -- Bill Nye
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. -- Robert Crippen
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. -- Robert Crippen
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit. -- Robert Crippen
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. -- Jeff Vandermeer
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. -- C. Wright Mills
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't. -- John L. Phillips
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office. -- Yahoo Serious
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. -- William Hooper
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. -- Quentin Crisp
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development. -- K. Eric Drexler
I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced. -- Wally Schirra
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. -- David Lehman
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space. -- Duane G. Carey
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into. -- John Eldredge
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. -- Raymond Loewy
It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space -- Clifford D. Simak
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. -- Laurel Clark
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. -- Brian Walker
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down. -- Eric Topol
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence. -- Buzz Aldrin
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in. -- Andrea M. Ghez
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice. -- David Mitchell
The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation. -- Sarah Brightman
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. -- Caroline Knapp
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. -- Paul Davies
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight. -- Buzz Aldrin
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond. -- Ben Parr
The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity theory through very precise measurements of this star's short period orbit. -- Andrea M. Ghez
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation between Earth and Mars. It's operating on the International Space Station. It's part of the spacecraft that's in orbit around the Sun that's rendezvoused with two planets. -- Vint Cerf
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. -- Sally Ride
When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away from the sun. From light to shadow, the temperature swings by 300 degrees. Of course we're protected by the gear we wear, but you can definitely feel this temperature change. -- Thomas Marshburn
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do. -- Buzz Aldrin
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. -- Chris Hadfield
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. -- David Gerrold
Poetry is language in orbit. -- Seamus Heaney
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars. -- Tycho Brahe
In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess. -- Roxanne Roberts
Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood. -- Mike Brown
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there. -- Buzz Aldrin
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result. -- Baba Amte
Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit! -- Sid Waddell
Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. -- Oscar Wilde
We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits. -- Richard Branson
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. -- Philip Roth
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM. -- Bill Gates
Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit. -- Douglas Coupland
When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage. -- Marc Garneau
Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth, -- Steve Jurvetson
Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit.(Zoe on meeting Justus) -- Dannika Dark
Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time. -- Horace Dediu
I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity. -- Donald Trump
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase) -- Giordano Bruno
There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit. -- Donald E. Brownlee
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable. -- Burt Rutan
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you. -- Hank Azaria
While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit. -- Louise Wilder
Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot. -- Robert G. Allen
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. -- James A. Michener
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. -- Alastair Reynolds
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes. -- George Henry Boker
Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang. -- RZA
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. -- Ambrose Bierce
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon -- Howard Tayler
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other. -- Buzz Aldrin
Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been. -- Roman Payne
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. -- Sally Ride
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world. -- Todd Skinner
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group. -- Leonard Read
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it -- Kingsley Amis
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. -- Aleister Crowley
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea. -- Steven Pressfield
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves. -- Robert L. Devaney
When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands. -- Mickey Wright
Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting. -- Carl Sagan
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause. -- J. G. Ballard
I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system. -- Richard Dawkins
It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between. -- Thomas Wolfe
Mars is essentially in the same orbit...somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. -- Dan Quayle
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit. -- Franz Kafka
She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself. -- Herman Melville
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else. -- Burt Rutan
Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear. -- Carolyn Porco
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit. -- Buzz Aldrin
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent. -- John Carroll
I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt... -- George Kukla
If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers. -- Kerry Greenwood

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