Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky!

No Matter When You Had Been To This Spot Before, A Thousand Years Ago Or A Hundred Thousand Years Ago, Or If You Came Back To It A Million Years From Now, You Would See Some Different Things Each Time, But The Scene Would Be Generally The Same.

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.

I Believe That The Good Lord Gave Us A Finite Number Of Heartbeats And I'm Damned If I'm Going To Use Up Mine Running Up And Down A Street.

The Single Thing Which Makes Any Man Happiest Is The Realization That He Has Worked Up To The Limits Of His Ability, His Capacity. It's All The Better, Of Course, If This Work Has Made A Contribution To Knowledge, Or Toward Moving The Human Race A Little Farther Forward.

I Think If There Was Anything I Learned From Our Skipper Was That It's Not How You Look; It's How You Perform.