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

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

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

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Why don't you light that candle ?

I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.