For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.