We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.