“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being”       Carl Gustav Jung

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato, The Republic, 342 BCE.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

— Eugene Cernan