Jim Lovell Quotes

My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

We got to the moon.

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.

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.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

We are not building the space station for science any more than we went to the moon for science, but we got a hell of a lot of good science out of it.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.

The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in a manned fashion and the command module, and the E would take this lunar module and the command module into a very high elliptical orbit, about 4,000-mile-high orbit.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

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