Jim Lovell

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

— Jim Lovell

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be…

— Jim Lovell

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

— Jim Lovell

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

— Jim Lovell

If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth…

— Jim Lovell

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights…

— Jim Lovell

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

— Jim Lovell

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

— Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

— Jim Lovell

Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize…

— Jim Lovell

I take the NASA physical every year.

— Jim Lovell

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

— Jim Lovell

We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the…

— Jim Lovell

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

— Jim Lovell

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

— Jim Lovell

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get…

— Jim Lovell

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

— Jim Lovell

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind…

— Jim Lovell

Houston, we've had a problem.

— Jim Lovell

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be…

— Jim Lovell

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

— Jim Lovell

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam.…

— Jim Lovell

“From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. It wasn't a miracle, we just decided…

— Jim Lovell

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

— Jim Lovell

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

— Jim Lovell