“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
— Epictetus

“When you peel back the glamorous veneer of the astronaut, you find that it is a really dangerous and biologically toxic job.”
― Steven Magee

“Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn’t ask again. Right afterward she’d put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called “Space Oddity,” about an astronaut named Major Tom who gets lost in space. She used to listen to the song over and over again. With her eyes closed, she’d place the palm of h…

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles