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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

~Jim Lovell

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

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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.

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

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Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: March 25th, 1928

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