Well, We Spend An Awful Lot Of

When You Can Feel That Close To Something You're Used To Seeing From This Great Distance, Well, It Changes A Person.

It Was Hard To Become An Astronaut. Not Anywhere Near As Much Physical Training As People Imagine, But A Lot Of Mental Training, A Lot Of Learning. You Have To Learn Everything There Is To Know About The Space Shuttle And Everything You Are Going To Be Doing, And Everything You Need To Know If Something Goes Wrong, And Then Once You Have Learned It All, You Have To Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice Until Everything Is Second Nature, So It's A Very, Very Difficult Training, And It Takes Years.

I Haven't Written My Memoirs Or Let The Television Movie Be Made About My Life.

The Space Shuttle Is A Better And Safer Rocket Than It Was Before The Challenger Accident.

Studying Whether There's Life On Mars Or Studying How The Universe Began, There's Something Magical About Pushing Back The Frontiers Of Knowledge. That's Something That Is Almost Part Of Being Human, And I'm Certain That Will Continue.