Buy why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may as well ask why climb the highest mountain?
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore . . . and this is exploration at its greatest.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
The sky is the limit only for those who aren’t afraid to fly!
You know, being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world.
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore . . . and this is exploration at its greatest.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the earth.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.
To go places and do things that have never been done before – that’s what living is all about.