I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.