SteveGa: "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." Jim Lovell Apollo 8
SteveGa: "It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. Tons of rock and dust were thrown into the atmosphere, creating a cloud the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.
SteveGa: "Does anyone remember when we were explorers?"
SteveGa: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own
SteveGa: Voyager opened our eyes to what was out there in the solar system and provides us a compelling argument for going back...
SteveGa: Dark Side of the Melon
SteveGa: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
SteveGa: “That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not contacted us.”
SteveGa: "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws"
SteveGa: "Worlds may freeze and suns may perish, but there stirs something within us now that can never die again."
SteveGa: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
SteveGa: "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
SteveGa: "He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him."
SteveGa: “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemists, but that's just peanuts to space.”
SteveGa: "It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell."
SteveGa: "And yet ... it moves."
SteveGa: "Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one? "