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NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage. ↗

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

#between #big #cheaper #deflect #earth

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

#bounded #directly #limited #live #men

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#century #convinced #development #i #i am

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

#arms #assembly #complete #complex #crew

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

#enterprise #eventually #going #help #i

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. ↗

— Sally Ride

#during #i #into #itself #mission

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#eating #enough #fluids #folks #getting

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

#another #draws #honestly #i #life

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#develop #first #flights #going #later