16 Quotes by Andrew Chaikin

It's sort of a house of cards in the sense that all of the hopes for human space flight have been pinned on that station,

The big difference between NASA of the '60s and NASA of the '90s is that in every way NASA was a young organization back then, ... not only in a demographic sense but also in terms of the life of the agency.

It was like telling a high school team that in eight years they were going to have to win the World Series. It's not impossible but not something that you would necessarily think they could do.

After the third mission, Apollo became not a gateway to exploration, but a singular moment, ... From Earth to the Moon.

I just hope that they can find something to be interested in. I like to see students get excited.

But I can't tell you when we'll go back to the moon. I think it'll be in the next 50 years, but I don't know. I sure hope we get space tourism before I get too old.

The flight controllers, the people who manned the trenches in mission control, these were kids. They were in their 20s and 30s. And they were controlling a moon mission.