Get The Shuttle Out Of The Garage.

As I Take Man's Last Step From The Surface, Back Home For Some Time To Come...i'd Like To Just (say) What I Believe History Will Record. That America's Challenge Of Today Has Forged Man's Destiny Of Tomorrow. As We Leave The Moon At Taurus- Littrow, We Leave As We Came And, God Willing, As We Shall Return, With Peace And Hope For All Mankind. "godspeed The Crew Of Apollo 17."

I Hold The World Speed Record Downhill, In A Rover. I Think It Was 17 Kilometers Per Hour, Downhill.

Chemical Propulsion Is Obsolete To Go Anywhere Other Than The Moon. Three Days - That's Acceptable. But For Mars, We Need Propulsion Technologies To Get Us There In, Say, 60 Days - Then Spend Whatever Length Of Time We Want To Spend And Return When We Want To Come Home.

To Become An Astronaut, Someone Has To Have A Dream Of His Own To Do Something That He Or She Has Always Wanted To Do, Then Commit Himself To Making That Dream Come True.

Today, We Are On A Path Of Decay. We Are Seeing The Book Close On Five Decades Of Accomplishment As The Leader In Human Space Exploration.