Jim Lovell Quotes

#1. The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

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#2. When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed ... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

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#3. Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

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#4. For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

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#5. It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space.

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#6. The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

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#7. Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

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#8. The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

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#9. I take the NASA physical every year.

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#10. I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

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#11. From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

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#12. I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

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#13. We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

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#14. There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

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#15. The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

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#16. Houston, we've had a problem here

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#17. Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

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#18. I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

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#19. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

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#20. I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

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