If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.