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Quote by Jim Lovell

“The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.”

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Jim Lovell is an accomplished American astronaut, born on March 25, 1928. He served as the commander of the Apollo program, participating in the Apollo 7, Apollo 13, and Apollo 14 missions, becoming a key figure in space exploration. more

“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”

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Author:Yuri Gagarin

“I could have gone on flying through space forever.”

Space Gone Forever Flying Astronaut

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“When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!”

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“Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it”

People World Earth Planets Our Planet Spaceships

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”

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Author:Alan Shepard

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.”

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“The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”

Facts Lows Built Ships

Author:Alan Shepard

“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.”

“I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.”

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Author:Alan Shepard

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