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

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

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

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.