A Lot Of People Ask...why A Man

Just Because I'm 77 Doesn't Mean I Don't Have A Dream.

To Sit Back And Let Fate Play Its Hand Out And Never Influence It Is Not The Way Man Was Meant To Operate.

This Is A Day We Have Managed To Avoid For A Quarter Of A Century. We've Talked About It Before And Speculated About It, And It Finally Has Occurred. We Hoped We Could Push This Day Back Forever.

We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly [with Friendship 7].

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.