There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You've got the skills. You've got the knowledge. You've got the love, and you're capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.

I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.

No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.

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

I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.