They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
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.