You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem..

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.

Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Toug….

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or w….

There is no achievement without risk..

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade..

We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But wh….

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories..

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do..

Failure is not an option!.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or tes….

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option..

Failiure is not an option..