I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

I failed music when I was a teenager.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.