Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation! (as he joined fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk.)
Astronauts - Astronomy Quotes
Observatory, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
“Where are we going?” (Bishop Aringarosa) had demanded of his driver. “Alban Hills,” the man replied. “Your meeting is at Castel Gandolfo.” The Pope’s summer residence? Aringarosa had never been, nor had he ever desired to see it. In addition to being the Pope’s summer vacation home, the sixteenth-century citadel housed the Specula Vaticana – […]
