Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

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