"T minus 1 minute, 35 seconds on the Apollo mission, the flight to land the first men on the Moon" -
PAO, Apollo 11 liftoff
"We have a lift-off, 32 minutes past the hour. Lift-off on Apollo 11" -
PAO, Apollo 11 liftoff (There's also some Shuttle mission that lifted off 32 minutes past the hour, where the PAO said nearly the same)
"We have a liftoff. We have a liftoff and it's lighting up the area, its just like daylight here at Kennedy Space Center as the Saturn V is moving off the pad. It has now cleared the tower." -
PAO, Apollo 17 liftoff
"Okay, Houston. The Challenger has landed!" -
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 LM liftoff
"I'm on the footpad. And, Houston, as I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, we'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible." -
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17, first step
"And I'll read what that plaque says to you. First of all, it has a picture of the world. Two pictures. One of the North America and one of South America. The other covers the other half of the world including Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, covers the North Pole and the South Pole. In between these two hemispheres, we have a pictorial view of the Moon, a pictorial view of where all the Apollo landings have been made; so that when this plaque is seen again by others who come, they will know where it all started. The words are, "Here man completed his first exploration of the Moon, December 1972 A.D. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind." It's signed, "Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, Harrison H. Schmitt, and most prominently, Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." This is our commemoration that will be here until someone like us, until some of you who are out there, who are the promise of the future, come back to read it again and to further the exploration and the meaning of Apollo." -
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 EVA-3 Close-out (Apollo 11 plaque reading is also great!)
"We're on our way, Houston!" -
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 LM liftoff
"We have liftoff, liftoff of America’s first Space Shuttle, and the shuttle has cleared the tower." -
PAO, STS-1 liftoff
"And liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis as Columbus sets sail on a voyage of science to the space station" -
PAO, STS-122 liftoff
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