Author: Buzz Aldrin
Cited by
- Ben Bova (2)
- IN: Mercury and Prometheans (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: History will remember the inhabitants of [the twentieth] century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in sixty-six years, only to languish for the next thirty in low-Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- IN: Mercury (2005) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: History will remember the inhabitants of [the twentieth] century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in sixty-six years, only to languish for the next thirty in low-Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
FROM: Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut, (None), Speech, US