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

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.