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.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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