A biography for Jim Lovellhasn’t been written yet.
“The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.”
“We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.”
“If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.”
“We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.”
“I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'”