6 quotes found
Astronaut · American · 1928–2025
American astronaut (1928–2025)
“Houston, we've had a problem.”
“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”
“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. ”
“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 ...”
“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...”
“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.”