The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

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.

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.

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.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.