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.

People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!