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

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

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

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

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

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