James Irwin

“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine.”

“Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.”

“I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.”

“That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart.”

“God has given us an external world of His creation and an internal world of His Spirit. And we can have more of an adventure exploring the internal world than we can exploring the external.”

“The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space.”

“I believe that the biggest contribution of the space program is to tell us how beautiful and fragile our home is and that we should take care of it.”