I was lucky to share in those,

Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13.

We just kept putting off the worry as we focused on the next problem and how to solve it,

Knowing that you were going to fly to the moon, walk on the moon, defies description,

I grew up on Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon. There wasn't a space program or NASA when I was a kid,

They're what got us home from the space mission. They're why I'm able to be here today,