There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the…

As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a…

— Buzz Aldrin

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of…

— Wally Schirra

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…

— Linda M. Godwin

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a…

— Jerome F. Lederer

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the…

— Jeff Bezos

I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that…

— Alan Shepard

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without…

— Jeff Bezos

“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech that launched…

— Carl Sagan

I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for…

— Gene Kranz

“There was a vague feeling within the agency (though with several notable exceptions) that direct ascent would eventually be the answer, but no one…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to…

— Fred Haise

Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies -…

— Buzz Aldrin

I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not…

— Buzz Aldrin

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

— Buzz Aldrin