"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."
- Alan B. Shepard
"I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it
happen in my lifetime." - Buzz Aldrin
"Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
- Neil Armstrong
"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
- Story Musgrave
"I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure."
- Eileen Collins
"Houston, we've had a problem here."
- James A. Lovell
"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you
have seen four beautiful sunsets." - John Glenn
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's
desire to understand." - Neil Armstrong
"Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up."
- Roger B. Chaffee
"It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In
fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected." - John L. Phillips
"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window
looking down at Earth." - Sally Ride
"I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth."
- Neil Armstrong
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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