- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moon Quotes
On watching the sky and racing to reach it.
One quote is almost possessive about watching the moon at night, calling it 'my moon,' while another simply describes a deepening interest that grew over time. See how these pair with our Earth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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.
- 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.
- Next
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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.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- More
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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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot.
- DARPA
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- Nov 07, 2020
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working on 'Vampires Suck,' I must have watched 'Twilight' and 'New Moon' literally almost every day.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
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- Nov 07, 2020