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

Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?

As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

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.