The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

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.

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

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

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.