Thursday Treats – Outer Space 11/11
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
Eighty-seven years ago this week, American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author Carl Sagan was born. You probably know him best as the co-writer and narrator of the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage or as the author of the 1985 science fiction novel Contact, on which was based the 1997 film starring Jodie Foster. Sagan’s best-known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life. He assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record.
In honor of his November 9th birthday, this week’s Thursday Treats features kits and templates about outer space. Whether you want to scrapbook your child’s obsession with astronauts and rocketships, chronicle your family’s trip to a NASA facility, or record your own love of science fiction, you’ll find these products out of this world. Enjoy!
Looking for some pithy quotes, words, or titles for your next space-themed layout? Give these a try:
- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
- Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there’s footprints on the moon.
- The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.
- You are the brightest star in my sky.
- I’m over the moon for you
- Love you to the moon and back
- You’re out of this world
- Are you a meteor? Because you rock my world.
- Rockets, Stars, and Missions to Mars … that’s what little one dreams of.
- Good friends are like stars … You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.
- Don’t just look at the stars – be one.
- Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. – Stephen Hawking
- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan
