Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.
We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. . .
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.
My job was always to pull a vote over from somebody who was likely to be at least at the outset disinclined to agree with me on some things or at least disinclined to agree with the policy that I was defending.
I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness. . . . I never felt sorry for people like Lindsay Lohan in my life. I thought they were dopey little movie stars. Now I feel sorry for those people.
No one should be rich except those who understand it.