Johnson Space Center Open House

Houston, Texas
August 28, 1999

"A lot of people still don't believe we went to the Moon. If we didn't go to the Moon, we should have got first for special effects." - John Young, August 28, 1999

After someone in the audience asked when he would get his next flight... "I'm not old enough!" - John Young, 8-28-99

"R&D work is a lot like hanging a picture. When you start you think it's a one minute job - but then you have to find the hammer, and then you have to find the nails...I'm convinced no one in Congress has ever hung a picture." - John Young, August 28, 1999