To Sit Back And Let Fate Play

In America, We Have No Means Of Getting To Our Own Space Station. We Have To Pay The Russians To Put Our People Up There To Send Them Into Space - Rendezvous With The Station And Bring Them Back At The End Of Their Stay, And That To Me Is Just Wrong. We're Supposed To Be The World's Greatest Space-faring Nation, And To Cancel Our Own Means Of Getting There I Thought Was A Mistake, Even Though It Would Save Some Money.

By Its Very Definition, Civic Responsibility Means Taking A Healthy Role In The Life Of One's Community. That Means That Classroom Lessons Should Be Complemented By Work Outside The Classroom. Service-learning Does Just That, Tying Community Service To Academic Learning.

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

The Most Important Thing We Can Do Is Inspire Young Minds And To Advance The Kind Of Science, Math And Technology Education That Will Help Youngsters Take Us To The Next Phase Of Space Travel.

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.