Jim Lovell Quotes

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to return the data and science sought. Most of the time, this will mean we send robots due to cost and danger. But sometimes, we will need the irreplaceable judgment and descriptive abilities of a person on the spot.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.