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Eventually we must leave Earth — at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell – The Way of the Explorer

“I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.”

Jim Lovell:
Houston, we’ve had a problem…
Fred Haise:
We had a pretty large bang…
Jim Lovell:
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the – into space.