For All Mankind (TV Series)

Prime Crew (2019)

Dan Donohue: Thomas Paine

Quotes 

• Deke Slayton : You have any idea how hard I've been working to get these women ready? They have been busting their butts doing every goddamn thing I ask.

  Thomas Paine : Well, he's seen the light. What can I say? With the Soviets on our heels, he doesn't want any distractions. And the polling didn't help. Turns out Americans don't really wanna watch women dying in fiery plane crashes.

• Thomas Paine : We need a win. Sputnik. Gagarin. Leonov. Belikova. The president's not interested in another second-place finish. It's bad enough that our girl's accident is plastered all over the news. We have an election coming up, and the way it looks, it's probably gonna be against Ted Kennedy.

  Deke Slayton : Should be a nice, clean fight.

  Thomas Paine : The president wants to give the American people something to cheer about.

  Frank Sedgewick : A Kennedy landslide?

  Thomas Paine : Laugh all you want, but Nixon's the only reason this program still exists. Apollo 15 will locate a usable site. And the president will announce that mankind's first permanently manned base on the moon will be flying the star-spangled banner. Congratulations, gentlemen, you're going to make history.

• Thomas Paine : I did not authorize this.

  Deke Slayton : I know. I did. I say who's an astronaut. Who goes up and when.

  Thomas Paine : Well, congratulations. You just made Nixon's shitlist.