“Neil’s voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969.”— Alan Shepard, amazon.com
“I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.”— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org
“The first one I hit pretty flush with one hand - went about 200 yards. And the second one I shanked, and it rolled into a crater about 40 yards away.”— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org