“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.”
The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center: A National Resource
“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.”
Project Apollo: Paris Air Show
“A new spacecraft began a new era for science and industry.”
Spacecraft Propulsion and Power
“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 Apollo Spacecraft: Status Report No. 2
“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.”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 17, April-June 1967
“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.”
Manned Spacecraft Center Progress Report, January-June 1967
“In this one room is the greatest computer capacity in the free world.”
Launch Windows for Lunar Landing
“Only one day per lunar month is suitable for launching.”
Manned Spaceflight Quarterly Report No. 18, July-September 1967
“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.”
Apollo 4: First of the Big Shots
“1967: A year of mini skirts, of global conflict, of tragedy and triumph, the year of Apollo 4, the first of the big shots.”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 19, October-December 1967
“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.”
Apollo 4 Special
“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.”
Manned Spacecraft Center Progress Report, July-December 1967
“The success of [the Apollo 4] mission would say, ‘We’re packing our suitcases and we’re heading for the Moon.’”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 20, January-March 1968
“After man himself follows his mechanical predecessors to the Moon he will return to Earth to find waiting a mobile quarantine facility.”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 21, April-June 1968
“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.”
Apollo Lunar Mission
“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?”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 22, July-September 1968
“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.”
Apollo 7: First Manned Flight
“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
Intravehicular Activity
“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: Go for TLI
“Apollo 8 glided on silently, farther from the Earth than man had ever before been, a microscopic dot of life in the cosmic void.”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 23, October-December 1968
“Ok, Houston. The Moon is essentially gray.” – Commander James Lovell
Manned Spacecraft Center Progress Report, July-December 1968
“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.”
Apollo 9: Three to Make Ready
“Now McDivitt put on a virtuoso performance playing the throttle of the Lunar Module, each variation of thrust a note in a technological symphony.”
Manned Space Flight Quarterly Report No. 24, January-March 1969
“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
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