Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.