The Moment Of Twilight Is Simply Beautiful.

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

I Still Have My [flight] License And I Can Still Pass A Flight Physical.

Liftoff Is Very, Very Gentle, Contrary To What Most People Think. Because You Remember, The Weight Of The Booster - The Amount Of Thrust On The Engine Is Just Barely Enough To Get The Booster Underway. And So It's A Very Gentle Liftoff, Contrary To What Most People Think When They See All The Fire And Smoke Of Launch.

Exploration, Of Course, Is Going To New Places, But I Don't Think We Go To New Places Just Solely To Say: "well, We've Been There," And Come Back, Interesting Though It May Be. To Me, Each Time We Go Farther Into Space We Should Use That To Do Basic Research - Basic Research That Can't Be Done Before You Go There.

There Is Still No Cure For The Common Birthday.