David Mackay Quotes

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

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.

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

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

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.

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

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.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts 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.

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.

If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.

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

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

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

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

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.

At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would take place that, like a lot of little boys, I'd gather in front of the TV for hours and hours and hours with my little brother.

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.

A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.

I was an eight-year-old kid when I watched the first Apollo Moon Landing way back in 1969 and there was something about that moment that really stuck in my head. I'd always been interested in space and flying and I was building model rockets and model airplanes, but something about that moment, I can remember like it was yesterday watching the Apollo Lunar Lander approach the surface of the Moon and then later watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take the first steps on the Moon, and something that day started the dream for me that, hey, I want to be like those guys.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

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.