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

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

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.

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

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

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

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