Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

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

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

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.