I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

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

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 first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

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 have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.