Pete Conrad

“Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me.”

“We had a motto in the astronaut office: 'If you can't be good, be colorful.'”

“Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest, which one can do again and again. Apollo was a unique circumstance.”

“If you can't be good, be colorful.”

“I think the shocking thing to me was how difficult it was. It wasn't one of those things you could just go and do. We had a lot of failures.”

“We should have gone to Mars. I think we should have gone to Mars in the '80s.”

“You know, the only way I've ever succeeded is to get myself in a big jam and then look for a way out.”