The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.
People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.
Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.
I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.
An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.
I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
You can't relive your life.
I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.
I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.
In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
