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.
If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
OK, let's get this mother out of here.
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.
The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.