Jim Lovell Quotes

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• The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.
• Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.
• Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
• Houston, we've had a problem here
• The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
• The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
• When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just…
• For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
• We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the…
• The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
• Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have…
• You need to be a person who makes things happen.
• Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
• It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space.
• I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
• I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an…
• Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
• We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
• I take the NASA physical every year.
• I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of…

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