Space is a metaphor for awareness : there’s a progression from the formation of ego, from being constrained within oneself, to a broader dimension that embraces others. It’s a mental conquest of space, with concentric circles that expand to encompass the idea of belonging to a nation, a continent, a planet and ultimately the cosmos.
Jean Giraud
Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg: Space Olympics: You’re A Winner!
Proposed new stamp for New Horizons. Credit: JHU/APL
The Antennae Galaxies (also Ringtail Galaxy, Caldwell 60, or just Antennae)
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).
Jumping From Space
If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it—and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.
Charles Sheffield, Keynote Address AAS Annual Meeting, 1978
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