We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

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

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.

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.