Flight Quotes
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The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
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One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.
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In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.
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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
