Achievement Quote by Jeff Bezos

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 biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

— Buzz Aldrin

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the…

— Buzz Aldrin

Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the…

— Kesha Rogers

I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that…

— Alan Shepard

Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades…

— Elon Musk

“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

There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries in space,…

— Rick Tumlinson

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing…

— Walter Lang

“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it…

— Andrew Smith

Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like…

— Wally Schirra