#the moon

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#almost #armstrong #before #buzz #enter

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman? ↗

— Kylie Bax

#moon #send #then #to the moon #why

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ↗

— Alan Bean

#get #going #how #knew #know

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#exciting #first #fun #i #i think

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#entire nation #going #him #man #moon

I'd like to go to the Moon. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#i #like #moon #to the moon

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. ↗

— Burt Rutan

#back #go #learning #moon #new

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself. ↗

— Pete Conrad

#expect #fully #glenn #i #me

We got to the moon. ↗

— Rusty Schweickart

#moon #to the moon