[The flight was going fine until] all of a sudden there was this boom, ... Dave looked at me and said, 'We're in trouble.'

The track looks excellent. Our weatherman says this is just about as good a global track as we can get, and we're real excited about it, ... We really don't want to let Mr. Hilton down this time.

The trajectory was good, the roll was off. I was worried. That wasn't the way it was supposed to be.

Adventure is the essence of life.

Anything that happened to the others could happen to us.

The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately.