Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

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.

Climate has been changing for billions of years.

If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.