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.

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

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

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

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

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

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

That line between love and lust was thin as a whisper.

Dogs were like the worst drunks - lunging at crotches then pissing over other people's shoes.

The decision can’t alone be mine, While the chalice is still full of wine

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

I'm really a one-man band.

When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating.

I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it.

I want to work and be happy.