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

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

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

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.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.