And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and tra….

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all..

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract..

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started..

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in ….

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space..

I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth..

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on..

If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet….

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, a….

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here..

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashe….

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing..

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but a….

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world..

I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went wi….

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there w….

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me..

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried.

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder..