Lunar Sample Return

Famous quotes containing the words lunar, sample and/or return:

    “A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
    Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “East and west on fields forgotten
    Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
    Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
    None that go return again.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)