Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.<\/p>\n
NASA is not about the \u2018Adventure of Human Space Exploration\u2019\u2026We won\u2019t be doing it just to get out there in space \u2013 we\u2019ll be doing it because the things we learn out there will be making life better for a lot of people who won\u2019t be able to go.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.<\/p>\n
To go places and do things that have never been done before \u2013 that\u2019s what living is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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