Imagine A History Teacher Making History.

I Told Them How Excited I Would Be To Go Into Space And How Thrilled I Was When Alan Shepard Made His Historic Flight, And When John Kennedy Announced On The News That The Men Had Landed Safely On The Moon, And How Jealous I Was Of Those Men.

If I Can Get Some Student Interested In Science, If I Can Show Members Of The General Public What's Going On Up There In The Space Program, Then My Job's Been Done.

Just As The Pioneer Travelers Of The Conestoga Wagon Days Kept Personal Journals, I, As A Pioneer Space Traveler, Would Do The Same.

If Anything, The Overriding Emotion Is Gonna Just Be Excitement.

I Really Don't Want To Say Goodbye To Any Of You People.