Jim Lovell Quotes

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.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

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.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

I didnt 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.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

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.

Houston, we've had a problem.