“Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.”

“People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.”

“We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.”

“We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic." Bill Gers...”

“And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.”

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be po...”

“Youve changed me forever. And Ill never forget you.”

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discover...”

“Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - ...”

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, int...”

“We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.”

“I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”

“War is hot, not cold.”

“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.”