Julie Payette Quotes

We got to the moon.

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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.

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.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.

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

I was eight years old when I saw the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was riveted.

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

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.

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.

Apollo 8 comes a close second, it not equal, to Apollo 11 for the most exciting, memorable moments on the Apollo project.

Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

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

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

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

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

The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience.

I can remember walking on the moon.