We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.

We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.