- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
- Later
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
- Houston
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- Nov 07, 2020
Houston, we've had a problem.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
- NASA
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- Nov 07, 2020