Edgar Mitchell Quotes

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

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

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.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

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.'

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

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.

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.

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

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

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

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.

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.

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.