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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

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Alan Shepard

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

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When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

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It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

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If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way. ' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

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