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We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.

— Jim Lovell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

— Robert Ballard

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

— Buzz Aldrin

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

— James Gleick

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.

— Ellen Stofan

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

— June Carter Cash

For me, I've not really focused on a world record. I'm just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

✗Opposing Perspectives

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

— Eugene Cernan

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

— Max Eastman

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

— Robert Crippen

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

— Joe Henderson