Roger, Liftoff, And The Clock Is Started.

The Pilot Looked At His Cues Of Attitude And Speed And Orientation And So On And Responded As He Would From The Same Cues In An Airplane, But There Was No Way It Flew The Same. The Simulators Had Showed Us That.

If Somebody'd Said Before The Flight, 'are You Going To Get Carried Away Looking At The Earth From The Moon?' I Would Have Say, 'no, No Way.' But Yet When I First Looked Back At The Earth, Standing On The Moon, I Cried.

I Guess Those Of Us Who Have Been With Nasa Kind Of Understand The Tremendous Excitement And Thrills And Celebrations And National Pride That Went With The Apollo Program Is Just Something You're Not Going To Create Again, Probably Until We Go To Mars.

The Fact That Every Part Of This Ship Was Built By The Low Bidder.

We Wanted To Be In Great Shape, We Wanted To Be Able To Cope With Zero Gravity, We Wanted To Be Able To Cope With Accelerations And Decelerations And So On. So All Of Us Trained So That We Were Probably In The Best Physical Condition We Had Ever Been In Up Until That Point.