Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.
Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.
To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don’t sit on a couch someplace.
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
The best space movie in my view is ‘Apollo 13.’ That’s just the way it happened.
I can’t say I’ve ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
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.
Quite often, while I’m getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it’s not working quite the way it used to.
The space station is the most unique laboratory we’ve ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals – the possibilities are nearly endless.
Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son’s a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.