I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.

I failed music when I was a teenager.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.