Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.