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.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

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

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

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

I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.