Coming back Quote by Alan Shepard

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was…

— Buzz Aldrin

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

— John Catsimatidis

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to…

— 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

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

— Jay Chiat

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future…

— Fred Haise

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers…

— Mario Cuomo

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.

— Mitt Romney

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright…

— Buzz Aldrin

You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being…

— Jonathan Nolan

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

— Robert Crippen