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

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

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

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

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.