After Quote by David Hoffman

“Nothing did more during these years to excite such emotions than the successful launching by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 of Sputnik,…

— James T. Patterson

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar.…

— Theodore Hesburgh

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I…

— Edgar Mitchell

For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

— Warren De la Rue

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining…

— Susan Howatch

A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation,…

— Katie Pavlich

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

— Neil Armstrong

The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us back our…

— Sam Kinison

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

This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind…

— Doug Liman