Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.