Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Worden

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American astronaut Alfred Worden.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Alfred Worden

Alfred Merrill Worden was an American test pilot, engineer and NASA astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the command module (CM) Endeavour.

Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth. — © Alfred Worden
Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
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