- Bob Carbee: [the Grumman engineering team is waiting to see if they've been awarded the contract to produce the Lunar Module] Whoever is tapping the pencil, if you value your life, please stop.
- Tom Kelly: When I said "goodbye" to LM-3, I felt like a proud parent watching a child go off to college. As I say "goodbye" to this LM, I feel like a parent of centuries past saying farewell as his child embarks for the New World. To some people that might sound like I'm stretching the point. A LM is not a child, it's a machine, and a machine doesn't have a soul. We may yell at our toasters and give names to our cars, but in the end a LM is just a collection of wires and circuits and nuts and bolts. I don't know. I think each LM does have soul. It's the soul of all the people who built her, designed her, first dreamed of her.