Rusty Schweickart Quotes

I actually don't remember Apollo 11 exactly because, at the time, I was five years old. The landing happened at night, and the walk on the moon happened at night eastern time, and I asked my parents; my mom said I was probably asleep, and so I just don't have any recollection. I do have recollection of the later missions to the moon.

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

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

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

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

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

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

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.'

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

Somebody else can be the first man on the moon. It doesn't interest me at all.

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.

During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmerized me. All this detail! That's what I wanted.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

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.

If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

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 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.

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.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

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

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.