I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

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

I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.