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“Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.”

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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

“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.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“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.”

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Author:George Steiner

“What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?”

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Author:Leonard Nimoy

“I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.”

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Author:F. R. Scott

“This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.”

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Author:Alan Stern

“It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.”

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Author:Alan Stern

“... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

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