Top 14 Quotes by Jim Lovell

I didn't 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.

Houston, we've had a problem.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

I take the NASA physical every year.