This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Maybe you’re not breaking down.Maybe you’re breaking through.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.