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.

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

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.

Adventure is the essence of life.

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.