In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.