“I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.” WayCoursesSpaceGrewMoonGrew UpProgramStartingApolloCoverageMercurySpace Program Author:Linda M. Godwin
“The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.” FirstsLooksAbleEarthHumanitySpaceViewsPlanetsMoonFirst TimeProgramOur PlanetSpaceshipsAfarSpace ProgramFallouts Author:Theodore Hesburgh
“My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.” ShouldMadeSpaceMoonProgramTransitionExpertiseSpace ProgramSputnik Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I didnt 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.” NextRocksMilitaryMoonPicksProgramProfessionOfficersNasaNotches Author:Jim Lovell
“The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.” PeopleThinkingHandsCultureSpaceFantasyBuildingMoonProgramChairsSpace ProgramCorsetsHairdosFuture Thinking Author:Aleksandra Mir
“Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?” DoeHelpingNationsGoalAchieveStyleReturnMoonResourcesProgramDollarsBillionsHelping OthersMake SenseTrailsApollo Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.” ThinkingMadeWholeDecisionPayGoes OnMoonProgramBudgetsMarsNo MoneySaving MoneyDecisions MadeShort SightedShuttle Program Author:John Glenn
“For me, the passion of being an astronaut was ignited at an early age. I have this recollection of looking at a picture of the Apollo program - Neil Armstrong standing on the Moon - then looking at the night sky and realizing that, right where I was looking, people stood and looked back at the Earth. Even as a fairly young child, that was not lost on me, and it inspired me to pursue my dream. I didn't know if I would ever become an astronaut, of course, and the odds are not in your favour, but I just kept it in the back of my mind and tried to keep those options open.” PeopleMindChildrenDreamAgeEarthNightPassionRealizingMoonProgramInspiredAstronautNight Sky Author:Jeremy Hansen
“By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.” FirstsAmericaSpaceRaceWonderAdventureMoonSummerProgramSurfaceExplorationMarsSpace ExplorationSense Of WonderSpace ProgramColonizing Mars Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.” MenWantIdeasEndsReasonDoneSciencePoliticalPresidentSuccessfulMoonProgramScientistDollarsResponseDecadesBillionsObjectivesFlightPigsApolloFiascoPresident KennedyBay Of Pigs Author:Carl Sagan
“One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.” PeopleIfsInspirationalHouseStarsPoorSecretWonderPrinciplesTeachSuccessfulMoonProgramPoor PeopleCeilings Author:T. Harv Eker