“This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible.”

—  Frank Borman

Source: Countdown: An Autobiography (1988), p. 454
Context: This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible. A machine produced by more than three hundred thousand Americans was circling the moon with three human beings aboard for the first time in history.

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