My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

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