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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

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Alan Shepard

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

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When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

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It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

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If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way. ' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

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