To Sit Back And Let Fate Play

Liftoff Is Very, Very Gentle, Contrary To What Most People Think. Because You Remember, The Weight Of The Booster - The Amount Of Thrust On The Engine Is Just Barely Enough To Get The Booster Underway. And So It's A Very Gentle Liftoff, Contrary To What Most People Think When They See All The Fire And Smoke Of Launch.

A Lot Of People Ask...why A Man Is Willing To Risk... Well, We've Got To Do It. We're Going Into An Age Of Exploration That Will Be Bigger Than Anything The World Has Ever Seen... If A Man Faces Up To The (unknown) And Takes The Dare Of The Future, He Can Have Some Control Over His Destiny.

By Its Very Definition, Civic Responsibility Means Taking A Healthy Role In The Life Of One's Community. That Means That Classroom Lessons Should Be Complemented By Work Outside The Classroom. Service-learning Does Just That, Tying Community Service To Academic Learning.

America Had An Emphasis On The Individual And So Education Became Available For Everyone.

We Thought That The Odds Of Things Working Ok Were Up In The Upper 90 Percent Or We Wouldn't Have Gone. But The - There Were Some Problems Cropped Up On The Flight But Was Able To Take Care Of Those Ok And - Although They Were Things That We Hadn't Really Trained That Much For. But It Was The Time Of The Cold War And So There Were Was A Lot Of Pressure On The - To Get Going And The Russians Were Claiming That They Were - Soviets Were Claiming They Were Ahead Of Us In Technology.