I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself