Agendas Quote by Buzz Aldrin

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But…

— Buzz Aldrin

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

When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that…

— Rick Tumlinson

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…

— Charles Duke

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was…

— Buzz Aldrin

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you…

— Carl Sagan

The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear…

— Michael Scheuer

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in…

— John F. Kennedy

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

— Nikita Khrushchev