When journalists ask Pete Conrad, from Apollo 12, what it was like to walk on the Moon, he simply replies, “Super! Really enjoyed it!”—and that’s it. The fact is, these guys were selected by NASA with very stringent criteria, to be the best pilots this generation could produce in the United States. And then, once the mission was completed, they were asked to immediately become masters of public relations with the world’s media, speakers at social and formal events, philosophers, diplomats, poets…
