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" The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! "

Gene Cernan

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" Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out. "

" Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration. "

" We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do. "

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" I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else? "

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" To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true. "

" People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. "

" Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. "

" Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life. "

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" We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind. "

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" Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away? "

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