Walter Cunningham, 90, was a member of the first manned Apollo mission. He died January 3, 2022.
Quotable Quotes:
"We carried the nation's hope with us. Twenty-one months before, a fire on the very pad from which we launched had killed three of our teammates. One more setback now, and the prospects of landing a man on the moon before 1970 would be gone forever."
"The task wasn't only technical. We also had to address any psychological barriers that still remained."
"I consider it a spectacle I took part in. I came away thinking there wasn't anything I couldn't handle."
"About 20 years ago, a small group of scientists became concerned that temperatures around the Earth were unreasonably high and a threat to humanity. In their infinite wisdom, they decided: 1) that CO2 (carbon dioxide) levels were abnormally high, 2) that higher levels of CO2 were bad for humanity, 3) that warmer temperatures would be worse for the world, and 4) that we are capable of overriding natural forces to control the Earth's temperature. Not one of these presumptions (opinions) has proven to be valid."
