Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.