#orbit

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you. ↗

— Alan G. Poindexter

#crawling #does #down #hard #headed

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

#already #been #build #earth #first

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

#another #edge #electrons #galaxies #majestic

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#circles #life #orbits #life

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

#could #development #facilities #focused #had

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#day #entry #first #flight #fly

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

#aware #being #eight #expected #get

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#earth #had #i #looking #more

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#both #developed #directions #experimental #frontier

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

#am #astronomical #chapel #chapel hill #find