If You Don't Know Who You Are,

Space Has Not Changed But Technology Has, In Many Cases, Improved Dramatically. A Good Example Is Digital Technology Where Today's Cell Phones Are Far More Powerful Than The Computers On The Apollo Command Module And Lunar Module That We Used To Navigate To The Moon And Operate All The Spacecraft Control Systems.

Shoot For The Stars But If You Happen To Miss Shoot For The Moon Instead.

The Exciting Part For Me, As A Pilot, Was The Landing On The Moon. That Was The Time That We Had Achieved The National Goal Of Putting Americans On The Moon. The Landing Approach Was, By Far, The Most Difficult And Challenging Part Of The Flight. Walking On The Lunar Surface Was Very Interesting, But It Was Something We Looked On As Reasonably Safe And Predictable. So The Feeling Of Elation Accompanied The Landing Rather Than The Walking.

We Had Hundreds Of Thousands Of People All Dedicated To Doing The Perfect Job, And I Think They Did About As Well As Anyone Could Ever Have Expected.

Houston, Tranquillity Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed.