I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.
I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.
People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.
I've always believed in survival.
Every shuttle mission's been successful.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.