For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan..

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term..

History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 3….

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations..

I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right….

Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through th….

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engin….

The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface..

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac..

My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappo….

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where it….

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world….

This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and….

I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space - we have invested so much, and we have a lot to….

Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a p….

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payl….

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-1….

There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's….