The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

Astronauts: space activists.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.