I Am A Stranger. I Come In

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

America Is In A Newly Competitive Position Around The World, And Unless We Keep Our Lead In Education For All Of Our People And Do The Research Along With That, Other Nations Will Start Outdoing Us And They Will Be Leaders In The World.

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.

There Had Been A Number Of Failures But We Weren't Going Out To Ride A Failure. And We Felt They'd Corrected All The Difficulties With The Boosters Before That Time And The Launch Problems. And So We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly.

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