Of Course I Was Delighted The Flight

I Woke Up An Hour Before I Was Supposed To, And Started Going Over The Mental Checklist: Where Do I Go From Here, What Do I Do? I Don't Remember Eating Anything At All, Just Going Through The Physical, Getting Into The Suit. We Practiced That So Much, It Was All Rote.

We Worked With The Engineers In The Design And Construction And Testing Phases In Those Various Areas, Then We Would Get Back Together At The End Of The Week And Brief Each Other As To What Had Gone On.

I Just Wanted To Be The First One To Fly For America, Not Because I'd End Up In The Pages Of History Books.

I Know You're All Saying I Can Go To The Moon But I Can't Find Pasadena.

You Have To Be There Not For The Fame And Glory And Recognition And Being A Page In A History Book, But You Have To Be There Because You Believe Your Talent And Ability Can Be Applied Effectively To Operation Of The Spacecraft.