American - Astronaut | March 25, 1928 -
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.
Jim Lovell
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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.
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Houston, we've had a problem.
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We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
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I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.
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In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
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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.
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I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic.
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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
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After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
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I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
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