The training in those days was rather ad hoc because the people running NASA were basically engineers,

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.