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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is. -- Valentina Tereshkova
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore. -- Warren Spector
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. -- James Lovelock
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand. -- Neil Turok
Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy. -- Famke Janssen
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. -- Marc Garneau
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses. -- Kip Thorne
We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft. -- David Mackay
I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic. -- David Mackay
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. -- Cat Stevens
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station. -- Martin Rees
What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity. -- Buzz Aldrin
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. -- Laurel Clark
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines. -- Laurel Clark
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
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
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
Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too. -- Kevin A. Ford
The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking through the window, you can see the earth and the stars, and it's very beautiful, but it's like looking at an aquarium, sort of. When you go outside and spacewalk, you become a scuba diver. -- Michael J. Massimino
The heart looks into space to be away from earth. -- Richard Jefferies
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. -- Meryl Streep
You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space. -- Chogyam Trungpa
From space, the Bahamas is the most beautiful place on Earth. -- Chris Hadfield
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space. -- Henry David Thoreau
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing. -- Karl Kraus
The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space. -- Jim Lovell
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. -- Carter Heyward
The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth. -- Richard Branson
The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space. -- Krafft Arnold Ehricke
I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space. -- Alexey Leonov
Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space. -- Prince Ea
Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth. -- Ernest Hollings
From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails -- Steve Aylett
We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it. -- Masiela Lusha
Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come. -- Nichelle Nichols
I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space. -- Anne Reeve Aldrich
We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth. -- Jacque Fresco
Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth. -- Jerold Panas
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. -- Carl Sagan
Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth. -- Timothy Leary
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love -- William Blake
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. -- Stephen Hawking
I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space. -- Leonard Nimoy
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder. -- Gregory Benford
Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space. -- Allan Kardec
We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green! -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Am I a Spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women? -- Wilhelm Reich
The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. -- Walter Lang
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited. -- Thomas Berry
Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. -- William Empson
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! -- Hippolyte Taine
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness. -- Paul Davies
A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these? -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return. -- Michael Jackson
Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it. -- Laozi
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth. -- William Least Heat-Moon
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. -- Kip Thorne
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration. -- Adrian Rogers
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth. -- John F. Kennedy
I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it. -- Jack Handey
Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air. -- Brent Weeks
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions. -- Stephen Hawking
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. -- John Joly
This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given. -- Ron Garan
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end. -- Stephen Hawking
When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.' -- Mary Roach

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