"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much"

DAVID BOWIE, Space Oddity

"We are the light that travels into space."

ZERO 7, Today

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”– Neil Armstrong

“To some this may look like a sunset. But it’s a new dawn.”– Chris Hadfield

“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”– Mae Jemison

“Gravity hurts.”– Viktor Alexandrov

"Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?"

DAVID BOWIE, Space Oddity

"The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself."

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Double Star

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE, Space and the Spirit of Man