Ellen Ochoa Quotes

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.

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

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

This is the first convention of the space age, where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.

Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.

NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.

We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.

The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.

Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.