Our Future: Will it be a Space Age or a Stone Age?

"When the history of our galaxy is written, and for all any of us know it may already have been, if Earth gets mentioned at all it won't be because its inhabitants visited their own moon. That first step, like a newborn's cry, would be automatically assumed. What would be worth recording is what kind of civilization we earthlings created and whether or not we ventured out to other parts of the galaxy."

Astronaut Michael Collins, Liftoff, 1988

Space Quotes to Ponder