Occupation: Astronaut Birth: March 25, 1928
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, y….
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job..
I didnt 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 lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window a….
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there..
Houston, we've had a problem here..
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand..
Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus..
You need to be a person who makes things happen..
The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space..
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space..
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth..
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your th….
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 - an….
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 ther….
I never thought I didn't have a card to play..
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft.
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane bo….
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt..