Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

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.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

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 real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.