I Am A Stranger. I Come In

I Think Sometime We Will Go To Mars And I Think We'll Explore It With Humans Sometime, But I Think It's Really Wise To Do All The Robotic Exploration Ahead Of Time And Learn As Much As Possible. Once We Have Learned As Much As Possible With The Robots, Then That's The Time To Send People, And Let Them Then Continue The Research That The Robots Have Started.

As I Hurtled Through Space, One Thought Kept Crossing My Mind - Every Part Of This Rocket Was Supplied By The Lowest Bidder.

We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly [with Friendship 7].

America Needs The Best Education System In The World. We Have It In Higher Education. We Do Not Have It In General Education For All Of Our People - The K-12 Education. Other Nations Are Far, Far Outdoing The United States In That Area. We Still Have The Lead In Research, But Once Again, Other Nations Are Pouring More Into Research Also. We Still Have A Lead, But To Me It's Just Very, Very Important That We Keep That Lead In Basic Research.

You Know, Old Folks Can Have Dreams, Too, As Well As Young Folks, And Then Work Toward Them. And To Have A Dream Like This Come True For Me Is Just A Terrific Experience.