Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.