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Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.