The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you’ve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy. Jim Lovell Read Quote
I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on. Jim Lovell Read Quote
The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they’re successful, people get bored. Jim Lovell Read Quote
People say, ‘Did you violate Heaven?’ Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away. Jim Lovell Read Quote
My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace – be comfortable with it – then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars. Jim Lovell Read Quote
For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn’t get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. Jim Lovell Read Quote
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. Jim Lovell Read Quote
We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn’t have done a better job of raising people’s hope. Jim Lovell Read Quote
