Space Quotes – Page 25 – Our Awesome Universe

Space Quote: Keeping an Open Mind

Posted on March 21, 2022December 3, 2023 by onespaceman2000

^{Image (Credit): An artist’s rendering of ‘Oumuamua. (European Southern Observatory / Science Photo Library)}

“Human history is very often driven by a group of people feeling superior to another group of people. If we find that we are not the smartest kid on the cosmic block, it will give us a different perspective. All the differences between humans will become irrelevant.”

-Harvard University Professor Avi Loeb quoted in the Independent discussing his search for extraterrestrial life and his new effort called The Galileo Project. His book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, on the the mysterious object ‘Oumuamua that visited our solar system has caused quite a stir.

Space Quote: Sanctions and the ISS

Posted on February 25, 2022March 28, 2022 by onespaceman2000

^{Source/Credit: International Space Station (ISS) from NASA.}

“If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling on US or European territory?”

–Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, commenting on US sanctions against Russia’s aerospace industry resulting from that country’s invasion of Ukraine this week. The ISS is expected to stay aloft until 2031, assuming everyone cooperates.

Space Quote: We Have Come A Long Way

Posted on February 9, 2022March 28, 2022 by onespaceman2000

^{Source/Credit: Milky Way Galaxy from NASA.}

“No competent thinker [can] maintain any single nebula to be a star system of coordinate rank with the Milky Way.”

–Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer, founding member of the British Astronomical Association, and honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society, commenting in 1890 on the likelihood that other galaxies existed beyond the Milky Way. This comment was captured in an excellent article from the July 31, 2021 Science News, “A Century of New Worlds,” which discusses discoveries in astronomy over the last 100 years. The article also notes that it was the work of another female astronomer, Henrietta Leavitt, that helped to eventually prove the existence of other galaxies.

Extra: A crater on the Moon is named after astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke (shown below).

^{Source/Credit: Clerke crater from NASA’s Apollo 17.}

Space Quotes: Key to Successful Space Programs

Posted on February 3, 2022 by onespaceman2000

**^Sou**^{rce/Credit: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Official Portrait from NASA/Bill Ingalls.}

“…in order for a space program to be successful it has to be a multi-administration effort. It’s like building an aircraft carrier; that takes about 12 years and spans many administrations. So the space program has to be the same way.”

–NASA Administrator Bill Nelson responding to a Time Magazine question about the lack of continuity among presidential administrations on moon missions.