56 Quotes by Jim Lovell

I didn't 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.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

We hadn't seen any rats or evidence of rats until the school district started the eradication program, and then we started to see evidence of the rats moving across the fence line.

The training in those days was rather ad hoc because the people running NASA were basically engineers,

Back in those days, going to the moon, geology was important, ... But how do we train pilots to be geologists? We concentrated on observing, not the analytical parts of the rocks.

That training really helped us on the second time around, ... It was one of those acts of fate.

Al was a very confident person, and he contributed a lot to the (space) program,