"Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke."

"Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility."

"When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!"

"The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation."

"I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface."

"Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties."

"If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait."

"Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other."

"'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards."

"I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was."

"In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people."

"Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers."

"We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there."

"My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe."

"I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars."

"Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans."

"One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding."

"Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port."

"When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise."

"I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft."

"There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now."

"I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the "surface". It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time."

"I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch."

"Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories."