247 Quotes About Apollo
- Author Craig Stevenson
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If we find a better fit, they have said they will bow out gracefully, ... Apollo says they are willing to stay, but that town will have to ?drive the bus.? And we can only keep Apollo if we?re willing to pay for the permitting.
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- Author Ellen Stofan
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So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'
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- Author Eric Schmidt
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Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it.
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- Author Gwynne Shotwell
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There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anymore. We've designed the systems to eliminate risk, which makes it take forever and cost too much money.
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- Author Henry Spencer
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It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.
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- Author Henry Spencer
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Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket.
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- Author Henry Spencer
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Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody's attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.
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- Author Jack W. Szostak
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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- Author Karl Schroeder
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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