"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."

Earth, First, Moon

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."

Exlpore more Earth quotes

"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

Joan D. Vinge, American Author

Earth,

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

Earth, Fact, Moon, Shadow

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

Black Elk, American Leader

Earth, Spirit, Voice

"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut

Earth,

"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

Shirley Chisholm, American Politician

Earth, Service

"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

Earth, Rest

"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

Earth,

"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

Jules Verne, French Author

Earth, Future, Months, Now

"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."

Thomas de Quincey, English Author

Earth, London

"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

Earth, Trying

Explore more quotes by Wally Schirra

"He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one."

Will

"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."

Politics

"NASA should start thinking about this planet."

Thinking

"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."

Life

"At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military."

Career

"We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right."

Time

"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."

Woman

"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it."

Love

"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."

Friendship

"Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick."

Family