Apollo Quotes


The Apollo program was very goal-driven. Get people to the moon. Get them back safely. Mission done. The big difference with the (new) exploration vision is that the moon is not the goal. The moon is a steppingstone. - Scott Horowitz



The Apollo program was about flags and footprints, and it was effective in helping to win the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Apollo leadership also managed to tack on some science activities, but they were definitely afterthoughts. But those times have passed, and we must move beyond the Apollo concept to embrace a more engaging and sustained approach. I hope this program is successful in doing this. I will be properly ecstatic if program officials are successful in doing so. - Roger Launius



The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream. - Buzz Aldrin



Successful failure. - Apollo 13



Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days. - Wally Schirra



So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this. - Paul Newman



Right now, given the budget they've got for the next five years, it seems to me it's Apollo on food stamps. - Wes Huntress



Our hitting was good. We put the ball in play and hit the ball hard. It had been awhile since we swept a team. We are hoping to finish strong in the Apollo and pick ourselves up a little bit. - Karen Karch



Once, when we were playing at the Apollo, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do - I asked her for her autograph. - Ella Fitzgerald



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