“One Chance” with Doris Day
“A project like Apollo has only one chance or take. Where we have as many opportunities as we have film in the camera.”
“A project like Apollo has only one chance or take. Where we have as many opportunities as we have film in the camera.”
“Of all the scientific accomplishments of our age, our firm step into the new dimensions of space technology may well be the achievement for which we are most honored by posterity.”
“A new spacecraft began a new era for science and industry.”
“From abstract theory to final developmental testing, the Manned Spacecraft Center’s specialists in propulsion and power bring to their work a thorough knowledge of the state of the art and the ingenuity needed to unlock new applications of energy.”
“The successful completion of the first Apollo/Saturn mission was one of the most important accomplishments to date in the development of manned lunar mission capability.”
“While the program is even stronger, there is yet much to be done, many problems to be solved. But confidence that our goals in space can be met is growing in parallel with the increasing determination to succeed.”
“In this one room is the greatest computer capacity in the free world.”
“Only one day per lunar month is suitable for launching.”
“The effort to prepare the Apollo Saturn V space vehicle for launch has been paralleled by the effort to prepare a massive complex of new mission support ground facilities.”
“1967: A year of mini skirts, of global conflict, of tragedy and triumph, the year of Apollo 4, the first of the big shots.”
“It is difficult to realize that only ten years ago, at the end of December 1957, the United States had scarcely begun the exploration of space.”
“What you are watching now is the separation and jettison of the aft inner stage, recorded on what has to be considered some of the most sensationally beautiful film footage ever taken.”
“The success of [the Apollo 4] mission would say, ‘We’re packing our suitcases and we’re heading for the Moon.’”
“After man himself follows his mechanical predecessors to the Moon he will return to Earth to find waiting a mobile quarantine facility.”
“We are not only closing on the goal of manned flight to the Moon but on the broader goal of space flights of immediate benefit to all of us on Earth. And therein is the ultimate aim of our pursuit of knowledge in manned spaceflight.”
“The moment we have waited for comes. Two Americans stand alone on the unexplored plains of the Moon, surrounded by the silence of billions of years. What will they say?”
“The third quarter of 1968 was marked by an increasing rate of vigorous and intensive testing preparing the way for an accelerated early schedule of resuming manned flight operations after two years.”
“I was very proud of all the people who built such a beautiful spacecraft, those who checked it out, and those who designed it.” – Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director, Manned Spacecraft Center
“Under the conditions we found in Apollo 7, the state of being weightless actually enhanced many of our abilities. It was almost as if we had found a new freedom.”
“Apollo 8 glided on silently, farther from the Earth than man had ever before been, a microscopic dot of life in the cosmic void.”
“Ok, Houston. The Moon is essentially gray.” – Commander James Lovell
“From the six manned flights of the Mercury program through the ten manned missions of Gemini, the development of manned spaceflight in the United States had proceeded with an elegant logic to the threshold of manned Apollo missions in the second half of the year 1968.”
“Now McDivitt put on a virtuoso performance playing the throttle of the Lunar Module, each variation of thrust a note in a technological symphony.”
“Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit. And to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge is to perish, and I hope that we never forget that.” – Colonel Frank Borman
“While all other phases of the lunar mission can be demonstrated in Earth or lunar orbit, the manned lunar landing can be demonstrated only by its accomplishment.”
“From the first Mercury flight to the last Apollo mission, the silent secrets of space have slowly given way to persistent scientific investigation and brave men.”
“Houston, Houston, Charlie Brown. They’re down there among the rocks mumbling about the boulders and things right now.” — Commander John Young
“Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.” – Commander Neil Armstrong
“As Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder to a new—yet incredibly old—world, over 400,000 men and women symbolically descended with him. The men and women in government service, in industrial complexes, and in a network of universities who had made this incredible feat a reality.”
Home movie of an Independence Day parade in Houston to welcome the Manned Spacecraft Center
Home movie footage of a television broadcast of the Moon landing and the welcome home parade for astronauts in Houston
Home movie footage of the Apollo 14 launch from Kennedy Space Center with Buzz Aldrin in attendance
Silent news footage of the Apollo 15 crew upon their arrival at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii
Home movie footage from a trip to NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston
Home movie footage of a trip to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including a tour of its Launch Complex 39
Home movie capturing one of the Space City’s top attractions, Johnson Space Center
Home movie of a family trip to John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including a tour of the Rocket Garden
Home movie of a family vacation to Florida, including a visit to Kennedy Space Center
Home movie of the museum exhibits at Kennedy Space Center in Florida