Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it