My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world..

Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of gre….

Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes c….

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were..

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic..

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged..

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger..

I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon..

I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it a….

I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge..

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft..

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got….

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag..

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond..

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you..

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel ….

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond M….

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty..

From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky..

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about ….

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story..