I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

There are places to go beyond belief.

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.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.