Spacecraft Galileo Quotes & Sayings

Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD — C.J. Mahaney

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. — Fernando Pessoa

This afforded an opportunity for a close encounter with Earth as it might appear to an alien spacecraft, and Carl Sagan proposed using this as a "control experiment for the search for extraterrestrial life by modern interplanetary spacecraft." The instruments detected the spectral signature of the chlorophyll from green plants, and signs of an obviously life-altered atmosphere. As Sagan and colleagues wrote in their paper "A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft" published in Nature, they found evidence of abundant gaseous oxygen, a widely distributed surface pigment with a sharp absorption edge in the red part of the visible spectrum, and atmospheric methane — David Grinspoon

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness. — Mason Cooley

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs. — Steve Chabot

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field

It's called the flyby anomaly, because there are multiple instances where NASA's Galileo, NEAR, Pioneer 10, and Pioneer 11 spacecraft have experienced an unexplainable increase in speed over massive distances. It's always when they're passing Earth at enough of a distance to not be affected by its gravitational pull, yet they somehow pick up speed, like a universal force is inside stepping on the accelerator. — Anonymous