Why don't you light that candle ?

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

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

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.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

We need a continuing presence in space.

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