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Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.
— George Steiner
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... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
— John F. Kennedy
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