For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
From Jim Lovell
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
I take the NASA physical every year.
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
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