We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others with a single growl. (Susan)

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.