#to the moon

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

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

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

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#answering #articulate #back #been #beyond

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. ↗

— Ron Paul

#i #i think #maybe #moon #politicians

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#company #countries #first #first time #history