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I said' Hey, Houston, I've got World Series-winning in my window,' and World Series-winning is about the size of your thumbnail if you hold World Series-winning out arm's length in front of you. The whole focus of your attention goes into this little thing out there. It's in a black void, which makes its colors even more impressive. Primarily, you get the blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, you get a little streak of tan that we call continents, but they're not that noticeable. It just looks glorious.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I liken it to a daisy chain, long and very fragile daisy chain, it emanates from Cape Canaveral, and then it goes out into space and around the moon and circles it back in. And it's got all these links in it, and if one link fails, well, all the rest downstream are useless. So for eight days, to and from, there was always one thing coming up, the next big event which could ruin you, be the end of you. That was how it worked.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Being close to the Moon was wonderful, but looking at Earth, it was this tiny little thing, blue and white and very shiny, it projected an aura of great fragility and the more you dig into it, the more you realize how fragile it really is.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Well I love the word Artemis, the twin of Apollo. I think that's a wonderful name, and more important than the name, it's a wonderful concept.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'd like to transfer that spirit from where we are to where we might go and I would propose going direct to Mars under what I would call a JFK Mars Express.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What Kennedy said helped us so much in our preparation for the first lunar landing, i'd like to transfer that spirit from where we are to where we might go and I would propose going direct to Mars under what I would call a JFK Mars Express.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I said 'hey, Houston, I've got the world in my window,' and the world is about the size of your thumbnail if you hold it out arm's length in front of you. The whole focus of your attention goes into this little thing out there. It's in a black void, which makes its colors even more impressive. Primarily, you get the blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, you get a little streak of tan that we call continents, but they're not that noticeable. It just looks glorious.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Now, we tried sometimes not to sit next to Buzz at a party because he was working 24 hours, around the clock, with 'now, if you get an ellipse and its epicenter is incongruent with the other, and then of course this comes through and the perigee is down there,'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Strangely enough, it looks fragile somehow, you want to take care of it. You want to nurture it. You want to be good to it. All the beauty, it was wonderful, it was tiny, it's our home, everything I knew, but fragile, strange.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
At that time, NASA was considering bringing two spacecraft together in space as the most ticklish part perhaps of the lunar profile, and here was this guy who had a Ph.D. in exactly that, so he was very, very well qualified.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You have to come to NASA with certain qualifications, i was an accredited pilot, which helped reduce the size of the available population. There were 18,000 applicants, and there was no way in hell I could have worked for NASA facing that kind of math.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I don't think he's too much aware of Mars. Maybe he doesn't understand that there is a planet Mars.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area, it just has seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it. A crater can be seen, and the area around the crater is quite bright.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It sets up a competition with us and what we stand behind far more significantly by any extreme than what the Russians could put forward.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The banks are still cheap, the chance of losing money on a 10-year senior bond is minuscule.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we have a recession the banks are going to handle it really well, they will trade more like utilities.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The liquidity profile of the market is something we, our clients, and even regulators are increasingly focused on, it is well-known that banks are allocating less capital to trading and that liquidity in the secondary market is likely to be compromised for some time.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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