That Was A Real Fireball.

I Suppose The One Quality In An Astronaut More Powerful Than Any Other Is Curiosity. They Have To Get Some Place Nobody's Ever Been.

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.

We Thought That The Odds Of Things Working Ok Were Up In The Upper 90 Percent Or We Wouldn't Have Gone. But The - There Were Some Problems Cropped Up On The Flight But Was Able To Take Care Of Those Ok And - Although They Were Things That We Hadn't Really Trained That Much For. But It Was The Time Of The Cold War And So There Were Was A Lot Of Pressure On The - To Get Going And The Russians Were Claiming That They Were - Soviets Were Claiming They Were Ahead Of Us In Technology.

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.

I Think A Mentor Gets A Lot Of Satisfaction In A Couple Of Ways. They're Doing Something Constructive, So They Feel Good About That. And When They See The Results Of This, With The Young People They're Working With, It's Very, Very Rewarding.