William Anders Quotes

• I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the terrain. . . . The horizon here is very, very stark, the sky is pitch black and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.

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  William Anders

  Sunset   Dark   Thinking  

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• Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.

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  Moon   Apollo   Green  

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• We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

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  Moon   Space   Earth Day  

  "The mysteries of sleepwalking and night fears are not solved", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

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  William Anders

  Airplane   Kids   Long  

  Transcript of Apollo 8 Flight Journal, history.nasa.gov. December 24, 1968.

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• You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

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  Baseball   Glowing   Flames  

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• It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.

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  Moon   Space   Ironic  

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