I Am A Stranger. I Come In

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. And So It Was Against That Backdrop That The Early Space Flights Took Off.

You Know, Old Folks Can Have Dreams, Too, As Well As Young Folks, And Then Work Toward Them. And To Have A Dream Like This Come True For Me Is Just A Terrific Experience.

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

We Had An Airplane, A Beechcraft Baron, That We - I Had Since 1981. And Annie [glenn] And I Both Of Had To Have Knee Replacements Unfortunately Over The Past Year, And It Made It More Difficult To Climb Up On The Airplane. We Weren't Using It That Much So We Did - It Hurt A Lot But I Finally Sold The Airplane.

That Whole Day [ Of The Space Flight] Is Very Vividly Impressed On My Memory Because It Was Such A New Experience. We Hadn't Done That Before. And Then I've Recalled It So Often Since Then I Think That It's A - It's Remained Very Vivid Over The Past 50 Years, Seems To Me Like About A Week Or Two Instead Of 50 Years.