56 Quotes by Jim Lovell

A lot of stuff, we had to learn ourselves. Training became some school work in those areas we were not familiar with, like orbital mechanics, the extensive gyroscopic systems for control of the vehicle.

Instead of starting the eradication on the outskirts and forcing the rats in they bombed the garden and moved them out of the area and forced them here. I understand the pressure they were under to take care of the rats and open the school but they didn't consider anything else besides their own problem.

I 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.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space.