Eugene Cernan Quotes

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

Five – four – three – two – one

Things were never as exciting for me as the first gig in New York.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.

It's so thrilling to be intimidated.

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

I'm probably the most excited about 'Turtleneck & Chain.'

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.