There Are Places To Go Beyond Belief.

Yeah, I Wasn't Chosen To Be First. I Was Just Chosen To Command That Flight. Circumstance Put Me In That Particular Role. That Wasn't Planned By Anyone.

I Have Been In Relatively High-risk Businesses All Of My Adult Life. Few Of The Others, However, Had The Possibility Of Direct Gains In Knowledge Which This One Had. I Have Confidence In The Equipment, The Planning, The Training. I Suspect That On A Risk-gain Ratio, This Project Would Compare Very, Very Favorably With Those To Which I've Been Accustomed On The Past 20 Years.

There Are Two Of Them Up Here.

As I Stepped On The Moon, I Looked Around, Dazed...magnifice Nt. The Vast, Sandy Silver Surface Was Almost Illusory.

I Am, And Ever Will Be, A White-socks, Pocket-protector, Nerdy Engineer.