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.
More Quotes by Jim Lovell
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.
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Houston, we've had a problem.
We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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.