As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept

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

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

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