Bill Anders

"I’m not that famous, and I’m certainly not glib, so maybe I’d really ought to work for a living.’... he shareholders at General Dynamics couldn’t have cared less whether I had been at the Moon or not.…"

"We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth."

"I thought the American public was supporting Apollo not because they wanted science or even because they wanted exploration, they wanted to show those “dirty commies” that America ."

"So here was this orb looking like a Christmas tree ornament, very fragile, not expanse granite … a physical insignificance and yet it was our home…"

"We had simulated essentially everything we could think of or anything anybody could think of on that flight, all previous flights, and in centrifuges, in zero G airplanes, and procedure trainers and t…"

"But, the most impressive aspect of the flight was we were in lunar orbit. We’d been going backwards and upside down, didn’t really see the Earth or the Sun, and when we rolled around and came around a…"

"From there, the blue-and-white glory of Earth, the only color amidst the blackness of space, became a beacon."

"But sooner or later people will be able to buy a ride into space."