When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.