Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before! – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Opening narration, Star Trek: The Next Generation, introduction to each episode.
Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along. – Henry Spencer
My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It’s very modest but there’s tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards. – Grant Achatz
It’s a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug – once you experience it, you can’t think of anything else. – Gherman Titov
The idea of ‘Badlands’ was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do. – Halsey
Is manned space exploration important? Yes – not least because it simply works much better than sending robots. – Henry Spencer
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance – there’s gotta be gold in them thar hills. – Giles Foden
We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of ‘space machines.’ And we all wanted to be first. – Gherman Titov
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. – Harry von Zell
The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It’s more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space. – Henrik Fisker
The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren’t hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media – what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are. – Hannah Storm
It’s more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff. – Gil Gerard
The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an ‘escape tower’ containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch. – Henry Spencer
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off. – Hakeem Olajuwon
‘253’ has a little bit of time in it, but basically, everything’s happening at once in a small space, and you’re exploring the space. ‘What happens next?’ is not the question that you’re asking or answering. It’s where do you go, and why should you go there? – Geoff Ryman
I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity. – Helmut Jahn
Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. – Greta Scacchi
I started the 1998 World Cup with Teddy Sheringham up front but always planned for Michael Owen to face Colombia in our final group game because they defended square and a quick striker would be able to exploit the space behind them. – Glenn Hoddle
Now, in the space of a year, we’ve spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number’s likely to go up. That can’t go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America. – Gray Davis
Everything that exists is information, and everything that is informative also exists. The infosphere is not a virtual space that is distinct from the real world. Rather, the world itself is increasingly being considered an information space and part of the infosphere. – Hubert Burda
Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That’s what the neocortical column looks like. – Henry Markram
In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to ‘Space Invaders,’ they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You’re going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame. – Hideo Kojima
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. – George Smoot
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. – Henry Mayhew
We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I’m sure a lot of bands are like, ‘I need my own space.’ But we don’t. I want to be with these guys forever. – Hillary Scott
I’ve always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting. – Gerry Anderson
If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted. – Giulio Natta
It’s hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there’s something that’s innately feminine about me, and there’s also something that’s kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well. – Halsey