Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.