Space
Cologne Airport is host of the German and European space agencies DLR and EAC, part of ESA, which train astronauts there for space explorations. Apart from that, Cologne Airport was one of NASA's worldwide 19 non-American Space Shuttle abort landing sites.
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Famous quotes containing the word space:
“And Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time
Wheeling and whispering come,”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)
“For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)