Moon Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev…

— Buzz Aldrin

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

— Peter Diamandis

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

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

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

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.

— Mitt Romney

We got to the moon.

— Rusty Schweickart

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had…

— Jim Lovell

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

— Alan Bean

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

— Anonymous