America Quote by Buzz Aldrin

I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level…

— Heidi Hammel

The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and…

— Rick Tumlinson

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it…

— Jim Lovell

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have…

— Anonymous

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev…

— Buzz Aldrin

“Consider this: in February of 1966, the Soviet Union soft-landed a space probe on the moon. Humanity has been launching programs ever since. NASA…

— A.G. Riddle

Putting a man on the moon united our nation in victory and we've collectively mourned through tragedies such as Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia.

— Will Hurd

“Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable…

— Carl Sagan

When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to…

— Andrew Chaikin

Apollo 8 comes a close second, it not equal, to Apollo 11 for the most exciting, memorable moments on the Apollo project.

— Margaret H. Hamilton

If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have…

— Paul Levinson