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Houston - we have a problem!
APOLLO 13 [Nearly four decades later, his ardor has hardly dimmed. Mr. Hanks starred in the film] Apollo 13 .....
APOLLO 13 [the crew has been "killed" in a simulator accident]
Jim Lovell: Well, Deke; if I had a dollar ...
APOLLO 13 [the crew has been "killed" in a simulator accident] Jim Lovell: Well, Deke; if I had a dollar for e...
APOLLO 13 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
APOLLO 13 Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on th...
APOLLO 13 Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.
APOLLO 13 successful failure.
APOLLO 13 Can We Do This?
APOLLO 13 For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the...
JIM LOVELL The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.
JOHN GLENN Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the P...
DAVID R. BROWER Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications wer...
FRED HAISE The Apollo program, the race to the moon became emblematic of American science and technology,
D. MILLER After the third mission, Apollo became not a gateway to exploration, but a singular moment, ... From...
ANDREW CHAIKIN The Apollo 13 accident was caused by an explosion involving liquid oxygen, which is needed along wit...
EVGENY SHAFIROVICH This is not your father's Apollo program.
CHRIS SHANK The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apol...
MARTIN REES He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
WALLY SCHIRRA My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
NANCY GIBBS If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. ...
F. GARY GRAY Apollo does not always bend his bow.
UNKNOWN I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting ...
LINDA M. GODWIN But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mock...
SUZANNE COLLINS Failure is not an option.
ROGER VON OECH Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE I have a grandson who's both really interested in art and all things mechanical, so I think he&#...
RON HOWARD Failure is an option, fear is not.
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leavi...
BUZZ ALDRIN It's probably going to be a lot like an advanced Apollo capsule.
STEVE HAWLEY Failure is not an option where love is the way.
ZENSHINE There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expressio...
RICK RIORDAN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
ANONYMOUS I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
ANONYMOUS Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:8a
ANONYMOUS The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place ...
MILAN KUNDERA Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo p...
BUZZ ALDRIN Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
AARON NEVILLE Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way...
RON HOWARD I will not have them punished," Artemis said. "I will have them rewarded. If we destroy heroes who d...
RICK RIORDAN Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.
RICK RIORDAN Does Zeus have a perfect tan? Can he play the ukulele? I think not!
RICK RIORDAN I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and m...
DAVID WEBER Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.
GEORGE W. BUSH There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If t...
ELON MUSK We win; they win. This is our contribution to Apollo Beach.
LEE KERMODE When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo h...
SHARON JONES Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
MALIK JACKSON Failure is always an option.
ADAM SAVAGE Failure is always an option
ADAM SAVAGE As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial deve...
RUSTY SCHWEICKART Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou...
EDGAR MITCHELL There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a m...
BUZZ ALDRIN Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.
CAMERON CONAWAY Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
RICK RIORDAN When failure is not an option, all your left with is success...
LEROY NELLIS II It's nearly impossible to overstate how fully my father has devoted himself to Apollo Group and ...
PETER SPERLING I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
KATHERINE JOHNSON The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (...
ANONYMOUS Actually my birthday was really March 13, but when you get to be this age you do what you want to do...
ROY HAYNES I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not pictur...
JAY ASHER It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Today, we've begun to make the extraordinary historic films of the National Archives available to th...
SERGEY BRIN It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just n...
ALAN STERN It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just ni...
ALAN STERN When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting ...
DAVID MACKAY Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo ...
WALLY SCHIRRA You've got to be kid-
Well, crud, what just happened there?
I ran out of syl-
RICK RIORDAN A ball of fire rolled through my stomach, catching on the wings of the butterflies darting around in...
APOLLO BLAKE I don't want to come to the end of my life, only to realize I've barely lived it.
APOLLO BUKOWSKI On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft....
HENRY SPENCER This is so disappointing. We needed an upside down number 13.
JONATHAN VAUGHTERS Nothing good ever comes out of hurry and frustration, only misery.
AULIQ ICE The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.
STEPHEN HAWKING Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terr...
RICK RIORDAN Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.
THOMAS BULFINCH But it's your Oracle," I protested. "Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?"

Apollo s...
RICK RIORDAN They do." Apollo's eyes narrowed on me. "But I was hoping there was something knocking around in her...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G str...
TAI At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would ...
ALAN STERN And now abide faith, hope and love; these three, but the greatest of these is love. Corinthians 13:1...
BIBLE "But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:...
CHRISTOPHER CUNNINGHAM We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was reall...
ADAM DRIVER Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the m...
MARTIN HEINRICH And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (I Corint...
BIBLE After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
JIM LOVELL It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.
JOHNNY DEPP Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about c...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD Opening Day is April 13.
BEN WAGNER Love is Supreme: 13©.
RICARDO ALONSO Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 1...
JEFF BEZOS Looking back, I thought best-case was lower 13:30s, high 13:20s.
ED MORAN It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch....
ALAN STERN The first year after [President John] Kennedy announced the Apollo program, the NASA budget was doub...
BILL NELSON It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart,
JOHN LOGSDON So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
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Jim Lovell: Well, Deke; if I had a dollar ...
APOLLO 13 [the crew has been "killed" in a simulator accident] Jim Lovell: Well, Deke; if I had a dollar for e...
APOLLO 13 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
APOLLO 13 Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on th...
APOLLO 13 Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.
APOLLO 13 successful failure.
APOLLO 13 Can We Do This?
APOLLO 13 A ball of fire rolled through my stomach, catching on the wings of the butterflies darting around in...
APOLLO BLAKE I don't want to come to the end of my life, only to realize I've barely lived it.
APOLLO BUKOWSKI Bullshit is as common as lame poetry and more unavoidable than
those armed men who are there to...
SPARROW 13 LAUGHINGWAND Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding bras...
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