Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Charles Duke

Quote by Charles Duke

“Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.”

Quote by Charles Duke

Author

Charles Duke
Charles Duke

Charles Duke, born on October 3, 1935, is an accomplished American test pilot. During his tenure with NASA, he participated in the Apollo program and became the second human to walk on the moon. more

You May Also Like

“We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.”

“Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.”