Rocket Men Quotes

“Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked.”
― Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

“American”
― Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

“1948: “It was all there in our emotions as they took off”
― Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

“and returning him safely to earth.”
― Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

“Don’t say that he’s hypocritical Say rather that he’s apolitical. Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? “That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.”
― Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon