There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

We need a continuing presence in space.

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.

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

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

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.

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