In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn’t mean much. Jim Lovell Read Quote
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries. Jim Lovell Read Quote
I didn’t go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession. Jim Lovell Read Quote
After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored. Jim Lovell Read Quote
If you’re going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What’s the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission. Jim Lovell Read Quote
I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren’t that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting. Jim Lovell Read Quote
Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It’s too risky without spending more time going to the moon. Jim Lovell Read Quote
We didn’t slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken. Jim Lovell Read Quote
