"Well, I look at it myself as the beginning really of an exploration. That's the reason we are exploring; you don't know what you'll run into on an exploration... What the sky looks like, what the stars look like... Do they still twinkle, or are they a steady light when you get outside the atmosphere..." I heard it on a song by the 'Kaminsky Experience'. Clearly something to do with the space race, was it an astronaut? After much searching I still don't know who the original quoter is. Anybody any idea?
It was suggested on the Wikipedia reference desk that it might be Frank Borman, Apollo 8 Commander. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008_May_20
Indeed it is. Apollo 8 was the first mission to go around the moon and be totally blocked from the light of the Sun. He was musing about what they might see on the dark side.
