Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we’ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they’ve seen.
— Ray Bradbury, quoted in R. D. Launius, The thrill of spaceflight, Profile: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery News 4:8, 2003
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