Neil Armstrong

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be....

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we...

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked...

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could...