#to the moon

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#back #because #beginning #chance #curves

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#civilization #crisis #debt #enormous #environmental

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#our #own #plane #private #take

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#back #course #coverage #early #gemini

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#before #certainly #chinese #else #europeans

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#go #i #kill #moon #offer

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman? ↗

— Kylie Bax

#moon #send #then #to the moon #why

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ↗

— Alan Bean

#get #going #how #knew #know