Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Eyes Turned Skyward fake quote update. At the wonderful Waterstones bookstore in Piccadilly, London, spotted the NOT Leonardo da Vinci quote in an unexpected place — a book by the Curator of Documents at the Royal Air Force Museum. Who actually said it first airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-... 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026“Flight originated from the imagination. It originated from the hands of artists. Whereas we have artefacts in our museum that tell us what they did and how they flew, art shows us the human dimension of flight and how we experience it, how we feel about it.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.com‘Flight originated from the imagination’: how artists have captured space travelAs the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with space 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026“It was eight days of euphoria.” Dennis Tito, from the steppes of Kazakhstan after returning to Earth as the world’s first space tourist. Todays NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/t...nytimes.comIs Space Tourism Finally Ready for Takeoff? 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025RIP John Noble Wilford. The New York Times reporter gave us some of the most magical words about the Space program: “The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach, the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s... 001
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025“From the space station's distance mankind is a creature that comes only at night. Mankind is the light of cities and the illuminated filament of roads. By day, it's gone. It hides in plain sight.” Samantha Harvey, in the beautiful 2023 book Orbital. 020
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025#rocket #launch #positiveattitude “We’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.” Jeff Bezos, before calling off the 320-foot New Glenn rocket debut launch in the final minutes. 12 Janurary 2025. www.latimes.com/business/sto...latimes.comBezos' Blue Origin calls off debut launch of massive rocket in final minutes of countdownBlue Origin has called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket because of technical trouble 010
Reposted by Eyes Turned SkywardWilliam Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Blue Origin VP Jarrett Jones: “This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it. But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations are a replacement for flying this rocket. It’s time to fly. No matter what happens, we’ll learn, refine, and apply that knowledge to our next launch.” 0168
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Wow! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...smithsonianmag.comMysterious 'Wow!' Radio Signal Might Finally Have an Explanation—and No, It's Not AliensThe infamous signal recorded in 1977 might have been a laser-like beam of radiation from a hydrogen cloud energized by a powerful, magnetic star, preliminary research suggests 021
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024“We will inspire children, yours and mine, to look up and dream of what is possible. Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth.” Jared Issaacman, announcing selection as next NASA administrator. 4 Dec 2024. www.adastraspace.com/p/who-is-jar...adastraspace.comBillionaire Jared Isaacman: The next NASA administratorWho is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for the next NASA administrator? He's a billionaire with close ties to SpaceX. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024#womenfly Emily Calandrelli on the beauty of sending more women into space, we “get to describe it in a way that moms can understand, that women can understand.” “It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born where I’m like, seeing it for the first time.” www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/s...cnn.comEmily Calandrelli, 100th woman in space, refuses to bow to “small men on the internet” | CNNGazing out the window of a rocket at Earth’s glistening blue perimeter, Emily Calandrelli’s mind was likely far from away from the trolls that inhabit the internet on this planet. 010
Reposted by Eyes Turned SkywardAstronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records included aboard the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. They contain sounds and images of Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life forms that may find them. Do you think there's a chance? 66911
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024“… because it ought to be impossible for a heavy wingless body to be gliding this freely and smoothly and yet here it is and it seems that you are finally doing the thing for which your being was born. It is hard to believe.” 'Nell' in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comCircling the Planet, Looking for GodSet on the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” reveals how small and how large our world really is. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024#ISS #astrobook Looks like I’m going to be reading a novel . . . www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...theguardian.com‘I’m so not an astronaut!’ Samantha Harvey on her Booker-winning space novel – and the anxiety that drove itShe won the top prize with a time-distorted novel set on the International Space Station. Yet, the writer reveals, Orbital is actually ‘a celebration of Earth’s beauty with a pang of loss’ – fuelled b... 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 04/11/2024“If you’re going to go to the Moon, sooner or later you’ve got to go to the Moon.” Flight Director Glynn Linney, summing up the rationale for the Apollo 8 ‘go’ decision, NASA meetings, 1968. Quoted in the 2019 book Shoot for the Moon. 000
Reposted by Eyes Turned SkywardAstronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Carl Sagan when asked, "What do you see when you look at the Pale Blue Dot"? 17123
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2020“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” ~ John Muir, Spring 1879. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 13/08/2020"This enigmatic smell reproduced from the descriptions of various astronauts evokes scents that we know like gunpowder and chimney ash, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't find it on the moon” Michael Moisseeff, recreating the smell of the Moon. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 05/08/2020#testpilot #spaceflight “It came alive … It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise.” Bob Behnkhen, #SpaceX Dragon. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2020“Oh, I loved it, punching a hole in the sky, right? Getting off the cosmic shore of our Earth, wading out there in the cosmic ocean. Every time, it gets me.” ~ Thomas Zurbuchen, #NASA, on today's launch of “humanity’s first round trip to another planet.” 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 26/07/2020#spaceX #space #rockets “It will not be very long until we know just what we have for neighbors.” Robert Condit, rocket builder, Baltimore, 1928. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 25/05/2020“Because [space] is a hostile environment, it is never going to be totally safe. There’s always going to be some judgment call about what level of risk, relative to the benefit, the decision makers are willing to accept.” ~ Patricia Sanders, #NASA 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2020#risk #SpaceX “Our mission is certainly not easy, nor for the faint of heart, and risk-taking is part of the job description. The risks we take, whether technical, political, or personal, all have potential consequences if we judge them incorrectly.” 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2020#spacequotes #space #timetravel “If your toilet breaks and you’re in space, you can’t run outside and use the tree or your neighbor’s toilet.” ~ @StationCDRKelly, with great thoughts on living in isolation on the ISS, and now with coronavirus. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 07/05/2020#space #SpaceForce #astroquotes “Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.” US Space Force, first recruitment video. 6 May 2020. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 26/04/2020“We, this people, on a small and lonely planet.” ~ Maya Angelou begins A Brave and Startling Truth, her cosmic wakeup call to humanity, which flew into space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft. This and much more: 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 18/04/2020“Please keep your distance.” ~ Ground crew member could be heard telling another, in footage released by Russia’s space agency. 17 April 2020. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 19/03/2020“Lying on my ass and locking the door.” @TheRealBuzz, 90, on what he's doing to protect himself from the coronavirus virus. He was famously quarantined for three weeks after #Apollo11 to save the world from space bugs. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 19/03/2020”Say to me there’s too much danger Say to me we could be lost. Then I say I am no stranger To the danger, that’s the cost.” RIP Al Worden, Apollo 15. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 24/02/2020“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. We wrote the first textbook by hand, starting from scratch.” ~ Katherine Johnson, RIP. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 08/02/2020Chris Kemp, co-founder #Astraspace: “Space is hard. Projecting schedules is nearly impossible … we’ve been focused on doing things, instead of talking about doing things.” 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 20/01/2020”The moon is the proving ground; Mars is the horizon goal.” Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator, quoted on the cover of National Geographic magazine, July 2019. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 12/01/2020One of the reasons I love working in human space exploration is, it's something we generally all agree on and unite on. I think it is an area where we see diplomacy where we don't see it in other areas. 'Jaws' Moghbeli, first Iranian-American astronaut. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 18/10/2019Astronaut Jessica Meir: “This is really just us doing our jobs.” #Spacewalk #WomenInSTEM #womeninspace #womenfly 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2019“Tight is right, long is wrong.” @elonmusk on timelines for building spaceships. 28 September 2019. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2019And now ’tis man who dares assault the sky. Fear not, Immortals, we forgive your faults, And as we come to claim our promised place Aim only to repay the good you gave And warm with human love the chill of space. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 30/08/2019“Eventually, going to space will just be another option people will pick for their vacation, just like going on a cruise, or going to Disney World.” ~ Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of the Von Braun Space Station: 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 23/08/2019"Let's go. Let's go," the robot was heard saying during launch, repeating the famous phrase used by first man in space Yuri Gagarin. Poyekhali! Поехали! Lets go! 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 05/08/2019“It is a grand time to be alive. We are young, the universe is in its spring, and the door has been opened, inviting us outside to meet the dawn of the greatest adventure ever. Ad Astra.” @robert_zubrin, in his excellent new book The Case for Space: 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 18/07/2019John Noble Wilford, The New York Times lead story lede, 21 July 1969: “Men have landed and walked on the moon.” 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2019“These are very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.“ @JeffBezos, 9 May 2019. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 19/04/2019“We seek, only, a place in our nation's space future without discrimination.” RIP Jerrie Cobb, NASA’s first female astronaut candidate. #womenfly #astronaut #avgeek 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 04/03/2019#Apollo11 movie with my two boys. Popcorn, check. Gummies, check. Blue slushy, check. Let’s light this candle! Fantastic movie using lots of restored 70mm #NASA film footage. Feels like you are there, watching and listening live. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 25/02/2019“The solar system can support a trillion humans, and then we'd have 1,000 Mozarts, and 1,000 Einsteins. Think how incredible and dynamic that civilization will be.” @JeffBezos @blueorigin part of a great talk transcribed here: 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 22/02/2019“It was intense and magical and serene and almost unlike anything anyone can imagine.” ~ Beth Moses, in the cabin as @virgingalactic ’s first test passenger in space. 22 February 2019. #earthfromspace #astronaut 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 04/02/2019“One of the things I feel very, very strongly about is if you want to get good at spaceflight you have to practice.” @JeffBezos #blueorigin 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 17/01/2019“Standing under some night skies which will forever be etched in my mind was another — they were so crammed full of stars that it really showed you your place.” @robertormerod 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 30/12/2018“A small and lonely planet traveling through casual space past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns.” Maya Angelou 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 23/12/2018“Over five billion people, everything I ever knew, was behind my thumb.” ~ Jim Lovell Fantastic to hear and see all three Apollo 8 astronauts, alive and well fifty years after their amazing mission. 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 23/12/2018“We're like three schoolkids looking into a candy store window, watching those ancient old craters on the far side slowly slip underneath us” ~ Jim Lovell 000
Eyes Turned Skyward @astro-quotes.bsky.social · 23/12/2018“It looked like dirty beach sand … that's how I described it, thus gaining the wrath of poets worldwide.” ~ Bill Anders 000