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You have a lot of things to do when you're out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.
I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.
At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.
In space, you need to stay as 'usual' as possible. On the space station, I would brush my hair every day.
It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.
Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Don't die before your dead! Don't let anything stand in your way of God's appointed purpose for your life.
I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.
I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.
A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.