I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

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.

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

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.