I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

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.

The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind of a turn. It was kind of a one-handed chili-dip.

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

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.