I Still Have My [flight] License And

Because Now, You Know, It's Going To Be A Number Of Years Yet Before We Have Our Own New Boosters And New Spacecraft To Go To Our Own International Space Station And Proceed With All The Research That We Spent $100 Billion Putting Up There To Give Us That Research Capability For The Future For People Right Here On Earth.

A Lot Of People Ask...why A Man Is Willing To Risk... Well, We've Got To Do It. We're Going Into An Age Of Exploration That Will Be Bigger Than Anything The World Has Ever Seen... If A Man Faces Up To The (unknown) And Takes The Dare Of The Future, He Can Have Some Control Over His Destiny.

Liftoff Is Very, Very Gentle, Contrary To What Most People Think. Because You Remember, The Weight Of The Booster - The Amount Of Thrust On The Engine Is Just Barely Enough To Get The Booster Underway. And So It's A Very Gentle Liftoff, Contrary To What Most People Think When They See All The Fire And Smoke Of Launch.

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.

America Put More Money Into Research, Into The New And The Unknown Than Any Nation In History, And The Same Thing With Education, And Those Two Things Led Us Into A Worldwide Preeminence In A Very Short Period Of Time.