The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.
Jim LovellThe vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
Jim LovellI didnt 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 LovellWhen I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.
Jim Lovell