Apollo Quote by Fred Haise

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

I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.

— Katherine Johnson

I watched 'Apollo 13,' and it, like, absolutely freaked me out. I was terrified. I didn't want to go to space because I thought…

— Sam Mikulak

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

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen…

— Jack W. Szostak

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.

— Gene Kranz

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

— Alan Shepard

I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here…

— Buddy Wakefield

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

— Tony Robbins

“Apollo felt as if he glowed with grief, poisoned with mourning instead of radiation.”

— Victor LaValle