It Was The Time Of The Cold

If There Is One Thing I’ve Learned In My Years On This Planet, It’s That The Happiest And Most Fulfilled People I’ve Known Are Those Who Devoted Themselves To Something Bigger And More Profound Than Merely Their Own Self Interest.

As Far As Actually Setting Up Colonies Of People Who Would Live Their Whole Lives In Space, I Think We're A Long Ways From Doing That Yet, And I Think We Have Many, Many Decades Before We Could Be Able To Even Consider Something Like That.

When Others Kid Me About Being Bald, I Simply Tell Them That The Way I Figure It, The Good Lord Only Gave Men So Many Hormones, And If Others Want To Waste Theirs On Growing Hair, That's Up To Them.

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.

I Think That It's Good For Us To Be Able To Travel In Space And Do Research In Space, And I Emphasize The Research, Because Space Travel To Me Is Far More Than Just Seeing How Far We Can Go.