Katie Pavlich Quotes

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

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 a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

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.

The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

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.

We got to the moon.

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.

We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

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 anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.

In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.