Achievement Quote by Buzz Aldrin

The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between…

— Charles Duke

I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just…

— Walter Cronkite

Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate…

— Buzz Aldrin

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it…

— Leonid Andreyev

Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also…

— Lily Koppel

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I…

— William S. Burroughs

I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of…

— William Anders

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national…

— Neil Armstrong

“I grew up expecting to see the first man land on the moon. It never occurred to me that I’d see the last one.…

— Terry Pratchett

It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy,…

— David Weber

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I was an eight-year-old kid when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing way back in 1969 and there was something about that moment…

— Leroy Chiao