” 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. “
” The moon is essentially gray, no color, looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand. “
” 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. “
” The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you’ve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn’t mean much. “
” 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. “
All 11 Jim Lovell Quotes about Moon in picture
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