Charles Duke Quotes

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• It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.
• We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?
• Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
• Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
• Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.
• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the…
• Roger, we're go on that alarm
• I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
• The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it…
• I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never…
• My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.
• Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you…
• I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more…
• It certainly is possible to construct a moon base in such a way that crews could stay for extended periods of time.
• The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we…
• Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist…

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