I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

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

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.