My books were nature; it was very important to how I related to the Earth, and the Earth from space. No doubt when I go into space, I go back into the cool soil of Earth. I’m always thinking of it. Nature was my book. Other people come from that tradition - Emerson, Thoreau,...
“Everything the movies have ever taught you about space travel is garbage.”(Chapter 1, Page 5) The opening to the novel makes it immediately clear that it will portray space travel differently than other popular media. Stuart Gibbs engaged in significant research before writing Space Case in...
1. “Everything was so new – the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.”– Katherine Johnson 2. “John Glenn’s life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.”– ...
Scientists alone can establish the objectives of their research, but society, in extending support to science, must take account of its own needs. As a layman, I can suggest only with diffidence what some of the major tasks might be on your scientific agenda, but … First, I would suggest...
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. quotation mark- a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else inverted comma,quote punctuation mark,punctuation- the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clau...
16. “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”–Carl Sagan 17. “We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.”―Carl Sagan ...
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. —Elon Musk 3 SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will ...
England on Jan. 8, 1942 — 300 years to the day after the death of the astronomerGalileo Galilei. He attended University College, Oxford, where he studied physics, despite his father's urging to focus on medicine. Hawking went on to Cambridge to researchcosmology, the study of the universe...
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things. —Gio...
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