As I Step Off At The Surface

When You Head On Out To The Moon, In Very Short Order, And You Get A Chance To Look Back At The Earth, That Horizon Slowly Curves Around In Upon Himself, And All Of Sudden You're Looking At Something That Is Very Strange, But Yet Is Very, Very Familiar, Because You're Beginning To See The Earth Evolve.

We Will Certainly See Teachers, Journalists, Artists And Poets In Space. Whatever It Takes To The Be The Best Is What It Will Take To Get You Into Space.

I Think America Has A Responsibility To Maintain Its Leadership In Technology And Its Moral Leadership In The World, To Explore, To Seek Knowledge.

We Don't Have The Capability Today To Put A Human Being In Space Of Any Kind, Shape Or Form, Which Is Absolutely, Totally Unacceptable When We Got The Greatest Flying Machine In The World Sitting Down At Kennedy In A Garage There With Nothing To Do.

Some Astronauts Describe The Routine Flushing Of Urine Into Space, Where The Freezing Temperatures Turn The Droplets Into A Cloud Of Bright, Drifting Crystals, As Being Among The Most Amazing Sights They Saw On An Entire Voyage.