Zitat des Tages von Jim Lovell:
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.
In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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.
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.
Houston, we've had a problem.
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
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.
If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.
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.
