I Suppose The One Quality

I Don't Know What You Could Say About A Day In Which You Have Seen Four Beautiful Sunsets.

That Whole Day [ Of The Space Flight] Is Very Vividly Impressed On My Memory Because It Was Such A New Experience. We Hadn't Done That Before. And Then I've Recalled It So Often Since Then I Think That It's A - It's Remained Very Vivid Over The Past 50 Years, Seems To Me Like About A Week Or Two Instead Of 50 Years.

I Hate To Think That We May Be Out There Seven To Ten Years Out And Dependent On The Russians For Our Journey Into Space.

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.

This Is A Day We Have Managed To Avoid For A Quarter Of A Century. We've Talked About It Before And Speculated About It, And It Finally Has Occurred. We Hoped We Could Push This Day Back Forever.