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

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OK, let's get this mother out of here.