People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.
Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.