Quote of the Day for 2016-08-05

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."

— Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) "Time Quarry," chapter 39, Galaxy Science Fiction magazine (December 1950)

Soviet propaganda poster, In the Name of Peace by Irakli Toidze (1959)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-11

"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs."

— Cicero (106-43 BCE) Orator, chapter 34 (46 BCE)

The first view of Earth from the Moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 (August 23, 1966) two years before the Earthrise photograph