For All Mankind

John F.Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.

(Command Module Pilot Mattingly stands on the launch tower, waiting to enter Apollo 16) T. Kenneth Mattingly II: I just stood around and waited until they strapped in. And here was a kind of a strange quiet. You look out and you can see the large part of the state and ocean and this-- this thing out here. You have the feeling that it's alive.

T. Kenneth Mattingly II: I had the only window at this point, and I looked out, and doggone if the moon wasn't visible in the daylight right straight out the top of the window. I know they're doin' their job right because the moon's right straight ahead and that's where we're pointed and they're gonna launch us right straight to this thing.

Russell L. Schweickart: There's a total and complete silence in that beautiful view and the realization, of course, that you're going 25,000 miles an hour.

Charles M. Duke Jr.: The only bad part about zero gravity in Apollo was goin' to the bathroom. We had a very crude system. For your feces it was a bag, and you put this bag in the right position. So you go, but the only thing is that nothing goes to the bottom of the bag in zero gravity.

John F.Kennedy: We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained and new rights to be won and they must be won and used for the progress of all mankind.

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