Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

Climate has been changing for billions of years.

I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.