The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space VehicleNational Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, Office of Policy and Plans, 1999 - 470 pages |
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Page 113 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 390 - The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
Page 390 - We mean to be a part of it — we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.
Page 412 - Kennedy: / have decided today that the United States should proceed at once with the development of an entirely new type of space transportation system designed to help transform the space frontier of the 1970s into familiar territory, easily accessible for human endeavor in the 1980s and '90s.
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Page 146 - It is my individual feeling that we should articulate a simple, ambitious, optimistic goal of a manned flight to Mars by the end of this century.
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Page 391 - We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills; because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win — and the others, too.
Page 392 - We should work to reduce substantially the cost of space operations. Our present rocket technology will provide a reliable launch capability for some time. But as we build for the longer-range future, we must devise less costly and less complicated ways of transporting payloads into space. Such a capability — designed so that it will be suitable for a wide range of scientific, defense and com mercial uses — can help us realize imiwrtant economies in all aspects of our space program.
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