Jim Lovell Quotes

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Jim Lovell

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : March 25, 1928

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.

Jim Lovell

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

Jim Lovell

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

Jim Lovell

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

Jim Lovell