I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to ena….

The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed w….

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experienc….

Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency..

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dre….

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now..

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum..

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch..

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars..

I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel do….

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from….

We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusu….

I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth ….

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly re….

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere….

I failed music when I was a teenager..

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that..

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life..

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience..

On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. It was either the rocket we had separat….

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blaze….