Gemini Quotes

“Hotdogging at supersonic speeds typically brought out the rascal or the imp in a flier. But Armstrong was neither. He was a quiet man—reticent to the point of opacity. He suffered small talk grudgingly, he laughed genuinely, though not often, and he got lost in his work with a silence and a laser-like focus. He also seemed to some to be a very haunted man.”
― Jeffrey Kluger, Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story

“Lovell then made a mental note: One day, he promised himself, he would tell his grandchildren that he was the first man to fly around the world in his underwear.”
― Jeffrey Kluger, Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story

“Very complex designs, as any proper engineer ought to know, were exactly the wrong kind.”
― Jeffrey Kluger, Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story

“the sweetest words an engineer could hear were simple, reliable, and effective,”
― Jeffrey Kluger, Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story