Edgar Mitchell Quotes

Edgar Mitchell — American Astronaut born on September 17, 1930,

Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell, Sc.D.,, is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon... (wikipedia)

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

Edgar Mitchell Quotes

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