NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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.

Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

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

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.