This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.