I Hate To Think That We May

I Think That It's Good For Us To Be Able To Travel In Space And Do Research In Space, And I Emphasize The Research, Because Space Travel To Me Is Far More Than Just Seeing How Far We Can Go.

There Had Been A Number Of Failures But We Weren't Going Out To Ride A Failure. And We Felt They'd Corrected All The Difficulties With The Boosters Before That Time And The Launch Problems. And So We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly.

If There Is One Thing I’ve Learned In My Years On This Planet, It’s That The Happiest And Most Fulfilled People I’ve Known Are Those Who Devoted Themselves To Something Bigger And More Profound Than Merely Their Own Self Interest.

We Used To Joke About Canned Men, Putting People In A Can And Seeing How Far You Can Send Them And Bring Them Back. That's Not The Purpose Of This Program... Space Is A Laboratory, And We Go Into It To Work And Learn The New.

America Is In A Newly Competitive Position Around The World, And Unless We Keep Our Lead In Education For All Of Our People And Do The Research Along With That, Other Nations Will Start Outdoing Us And They Will Be Leaders In The World.