As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long ways from doing that yet, and I think we have many, many decades before we could be able to even consider something like that.

I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.

I don't like the way the whole thing has developed. And I just hope that we develop our own transportation system, both spacecraft and new boosters, as soon as possible. I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.