Top 271 Orbit Quotes & Sayings

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

Working in TV and navigating success is a tricky thing. It's easier to navigate the hard work of starting out because you just do anything they let you do, but once you get into an orbit, after the thrusters have pushed you into the orbit, now you have to navigate that orbit. There's no choices when you're starting out. You're just like, "Please, let me do anything." But then it turns around and it's like, "We'll let you do anything".

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

One of the things that's really exciting from my perspective is that Canada is one of the major spacefaring nations. The list of our achievements is profound and significant, and it's not just in robotics, it's also in the life-sciences research experiments that take place on board and other space-science experiments. I'd love to see Canada go from being a major spacefaring nation in low-Earth-orbit missions to those beyond, making sure we're part of those missions to Mars - not just from a technology perspective, but sending humans into beyond-Earth orbit.

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go!

We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.

Poetry is language in orbit.

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.

If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity.

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

When the engine cut off and we were in orbit, it was surreal.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

The eyeball is contained in the cavity of the orbit. In this situation, it is securely protected from injury, whilst its position is such as to ensure the most extensive range of sight.

The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in a manned fashion and the command module, and the E would take this lunar module and the command module into a very high elliptical orbit, about 4,000-mile-high orbit.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.

Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

But thanks to the International Space Station, we're able to study the effects of weightlessness and develop countermeasures in orbit, close to Earth.

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.

Global warming is a scientific fact as much as the hole in the ozone layer or Earth's orbit around the sun.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.