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I felt I was one of the luckiest guys on Earth.

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For someone in my profession that has the interests I had, then it was wonderful

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it was like you won the lottery, only even better.

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3, 2,1, 0 ... all engines running, commence
liftoff.

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I mean, you figured we went 240,000 miles
and ... to land right within maybe perfectly

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or within 10 feet at least of your target,
that's pretty amazing.

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It shows how people in mission control and
the tracking sites and the computer areas

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were able to refine what we could do.

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One of the things I've loved about NASA is
... it never sits still.

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I have the fondest memories of that particular
mission... even perhaps more than Apollo because

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I was a more skilled astronaut by then, and
also it's a lot more difficult to stay in

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space and be motivated for two months than
it is to go on to the Moon for ten days.

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Going to the Moon for ten days is like going
to Paris for your first visit or something

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it's good ...  every day is different.

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Hats off to the people that fly the space
station now.

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It's day after day of hard work and even though
you have a nice view out the window that doesn't

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kind of pay you back for the constant effort
that you have to put out to be productive in space.

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After Skylab I began to say, You know, I've
seen sights that no other artist in all of

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history has ever seen.

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If I could paint that well enough maybe I
could do something wonderful in the art world.

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My theory is they should've taken artists
along with Christopher Columbus because that

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would have been a nice thing to know what
happened when he got there ... what the other

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captains of the other ships looked like, what
the crew looked like.

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So artists are nice things to have around.