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Globalisation Means Many Other Countries Are Asserting Themselves And Trying To Take Over Leadership. Please Don't Ask Americans To Let Others Assume The Leadership Of Human Exploration. We Can Do Wonderful Science On The Moon, And Wonderful Commercial Things. Then We Can Pack Up And Move On To Mars.

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I Would Rather People Understand That There Is A Very, Very Fortunate American Who Was Given The Opportunity, And Was In The Right Place At The Right Time To Have The Moment Of A Lifetime. My Mother Was Born - Her Name Was Marianne Moon. And She Was Born In 1903, The Year That The Wright Brothers First Flew.

If You Want To Say That The Sky Is Black, And If I'm There, Even If I Fall Back Down Again, I Will Be Weightless For A Period Of Time - Maybe That's The Definition Of Space.

This Is The Lm Pilot. I'd Like To Take This Opportunity To Ask Every Person Listening In, Whoever And Wherever They May Be, To Pause For A Moment And Contemplate The Events Of The Past Few Hours And To Give Thanks In His Or Her Own Way.

I Participated With Great Honor In Becoming One Of The First To Land On The Moon, And Now I Am Devoting And Have Devoted Many Years Of My Life To Enabling Americans To Lead International Nations To Permanence On The Planet Mars.

We Could Have Human Intelligence In Orbit Around Mars, Building Things There.

Building Things

America's Can-do Spirit Cast A Warm Glow Across Nations And Cultures, Generating More Goodwill And Support For Our Country's Ideals And Causes Than Had Otherwise Been Possible.

I Don't Watch 'american Idol,' But I Wouldn't Call It 'undignified.'

Monumental Achievements By Humanity Should Be Done By Major Organizations As Much Together As Possible.

I Didn't Start Skiing Until I Was 50. My Wife Lois Taught Me How To Ski. I'm Proficiently Conservative.

Mars Is The Symbolic And Totally Stimulating Next Objective That Could So Dominate The Next Century's Exploration Efforts. From Mars, The Resources Of All The Asteroids Will Become Readily Available.

Astronauts Working For The Government Will Always Need To Be Either Pilots Or Mission Specialists. Those Who Want To Be Pilots Should Have Military Experience - Ideally, A Test Pilot Background.

I Want To Keep On The Move, Keep Stimulated And Challenged.

I Still Say, 'shoot For The Moon; You Might Get There.'

Shoot For The Moon

Trips To Mars, The Moon, Even Orbit, Will Require That We Provide Astrotourists With As Many Comforts From Home As Possible, Including Paying Each Other.

Going Back To The Moon Is Not Visionary In Restoring Space Leadership For America. Like Its Apollo Predecessor, It Will Prove To Be A Dead End Littered With Broken Spacecraft, Broken Dreams And Broken Policies.

I Was Saddened To Learn Of The Passing Of Leonard Nimoy, A Fellow Space Traveler Because He Helped Make The Journey Into The Final Frontier Accessible To Us All.... Indeed, There Are Strange New Worlds To Explore -- To Seek Out New Life And Start New Civilizations. It Is Time To Boldly Go Where No Man -- Or Woman -- Has Gone Before. Thanks To Leonard Nimoy And His Beloved Mr. Spock, The Bar Has Been Set High For Us To Continue Humanity's Quest To Probe Outward In The Universe.

I Remember It Was Hard To Believe That I Was Taking A Step Onto The Lunar Surface.

As We Begin To Have Landings On The Moon, We Can Alternate Those With Vertical Launch Of Similar Crew Modules On Similar Launch Vehicles For Vertical-launch Tourism In Space, If You Want To Call It That Adventure Travel.

In My Mind, Public Space Travel Will Precede Efforts Toward Exploration -- Be It Returning To The Moon, Going To Mars, Visiting Asteroids, Or Whatever Seems Appropriate. We've Got Millions And Millions Of People Who Want To Go Into Space, Who Are Willing To Pay. When You Figure In The Payload Potential Of Customers, Everything Changes.

I Want People To Go Into Space, To Orbit Around The World A Few Times, Even To Stay There For 24 Hours And Then Come Back To Where They Took Off. And I Also Want People With A Low Income To Be Able To Do That, Not Only Rich People.

My Sister Called Me "buzzard" When I Was A Baby - She Couldn't Say "brother" So I've Been Buzz My Whole Life.

The Universe Is The Way It Is. It's Not Going To Be Changed By Supplications.

Six Out Of Seven Times We Landed Successfully [on The Moon]. I Wanted To Be A Part Of That And I Was A Part Of That, So My Personal Feeling Is Of Great Gratefulness For Having Somehow Been In A Position To Have Been Given The Opportunity To Be On That First Landing. That's A Marvelous Experience For A Little Kid That Grew Up In New Jersey. So I'm Very Thankful, And I Asked The Whole World To Give Thanks Once We Successfully Landed.

We'll Get To The Details Of What's Around Here, But It Looks Like A Collection Of Just About Every Variety Of Shape - Angularity, Granularity, About Every Variety Of Rock.... The Colors - Well.... There Doesn't Appear To Be Too Much Of A General Color At All; However, It Looks As Though Some Of The Rocks And Boulders Are Going To Have Some Interesting Colors To Them. Over.

Apollo 11 Will Probably Go Down In History As One Of The Major Responses Of Two Nations Facing Each Other With Threatening Technologies - Sometimes Called Mutually Assured Destruction. It Was Also The America's Response To The Apparent Superiority Of The Russians In Putting Objects Into Space Before Usa Could.

Before Deciding What To Do About National Space Policy, Obama Set Up An Outside Review Panel Of Space Experts, Headed Up By My Friend Norm Augustine, Former Head Of Lockheed Martin And A Former Government Official.

I Believe That Space Travel Will One Day Become As Common As Airline Travel Is Today. I'm Convinced, However, That The True Future Of Space Travel Does Not Lie With Government Agencies -- Nasa Is Still Obsessed With The Idea That The Primary Purpose Of The Space Program Is Science -- But Real Progress Will Come From Private Companies Competing To Provide The Ultimate Adventure Ride, And Nasa Will Receive The Trickle-down Benefits.

You Are Not Going To Change The Minds Of People Who Are Looking For Attention.

The Way I See It, Commercial Interests Should Manage A Lunar Base While Nasa Gets On With The Really Important Task Of Flying To Mars.

I Failed Music When I Was A Teenager.

I Think Both The Space Shuttle Program And The International Space Station Program Have Not Really Lived Up To Their Expectations.

The Moon I See Now Is The Same Moon I Saw Before. Except That Before, When I Looked At It, It Was In Anticipation Of What It Would Be Like When I Got There. That's Behind Me Now.

On Apollo 11 In Route To The Moon, I Observed A Light Out The Window That Appeared To Be Moving Alongside Us. It Was Either The Rocket We Had Separated From, Or The 4 Panels That Moved Away When We Extracted The Lander From The Rocket And We Were Nose To Nose With The Two Spacecraft. So In The Close Vicinity, Moving Away, Were 4 Panels. And I Feel Absolutely Convinced That We Were Looking At The Sun Reflected Off Of One Of These Panels.

Anything We Can Do In The Near Future That Begins To Stimulate The Interest Of People - Seeing Somebody Down The Street Have An Opportunity To Go Into Space - Buoys Up The Whole Neighborhood.

I Was Given Permission To Serve Myself Communion, With Wine And A Wafer, On The Surface On The Moon. But I Was Advised Not To Say Anything About It At The Time. Someone Had Strongly Objected To The Apollo 8 Crew Reading From The Bible. We Didn't Want To Get Into Any Further Trouble With The Religious Critics.

I Do Celebrity Ski Races All Over The World.

I Inherited Depression From My Mother's Side Of The Family. Her Father Committed Suicide. She Committed Suicide The Year Before I Went To The Moon.

'anthony And The Magic Picture Frame' Tells It Like It Really Was In America's Early Space Program - The Adventure, The Risks, And The Rewards.

The Way I See It, What Is Going To Come Out Of The Moon Activities Is A Respect For U.s. Leadership.

It Was Challenging To Understand What Was Necessary To Successfully Carry Out All The Training Simulations That We, As Crewmen, Would Experience, And Make A Very Successful Use Of That Training And Education.

For Every Winner, There's A Loser. And That Person Didn't Really Need To Lose. They Just Didn't Understand The Game Plan.

Walking Around On The Moon Was Significantly Easier Than We'd Thought It Would Be. There Weren't Any Balance Problems, So You Weren't Tumbling Over.

Did The Pilgrims On The Mayflower Sit Around Plymouth Rock Waiting For A Return Trip? They Came Here To Settle. And That's What We Should Be Doing On Mars. When You Go To Mars, You Need To Have Made The Decision That You're There Permanently. The More People We Have There, The More It Can Become A Sustaining Environment. Except For Very Rare Exceptions, The People Who Go To Mars Shouldn't Be Coming Back. Once You Get On The Surface, You're There.

Everyone Who's Been In Space Would, I'm Sure, Welcome The Opportunity For A Return To The Exhilarating Experiences There.

I Know: If You're Looking Down At Earth, You're Looking Through An Atmosphere That Has A Bit Of Haze In Many Places And Not Just Occasional Clouds.

Many Say Exploration Is Part Of Our Destiny, But It's Actually Our Duty To Future Generations And Their Quest To Ensure The Survival Of The Human Species.

What Comes After The Moon? I Think You Can Guess: Mars.

For The Future, Primarily, We Must Educate People In Science, Engineering, Technology And Math.

From The Distance Of The Moon, Earth Was Four Times The Size Of A Full Moon Seen From Earth. It Was A Brilliant Jewel In The Black Velvet Sky.

Retain The Vision For Space Exploration. If We Turn Our Backs On The Vision Again, We're Going To Have To Live In A Secondary Position In Human Space Flight For The Rest Of The Century.

Whenever I Gaze Up At The Moon, I Feel Like I'm On A Time Machine. I Am Back To That Precious Pinpoint Of Time, Standing On The Foreboding - Yet Beautiful - Sea Of Tranquility. I Could See Our Shining Blue Planet Earth Poised In The Darkness Of Space.

It's Not Easy To Get Human Beings Into Orbit. So Far Only Three Nations Have Been Able To Do That, With All The Resources That They Put Together. And I'm Just A Little Skeptical That That's Going To Be Done By The Private Sector Without Making Use Of What Has Been Done By The Government.

I'm Convinced That Sending People To Mars Is So Expensive That If You Go Once And Bring The People Back And Then Go Again And Bring The People Back, We're Eventually Going To Run Out Of Money. But What If We Send People The First Time And They Don't Come Back? What If They Stay There?

There's No Doubt That There Will Be Many Trials And Tribulations Along The Way In Taming Space For The Benefit Of All, Unmasking Its Truths And Using The Boundless Resources Available To Us. Taking A Chance Allows Us To Seek New Horizons -- And We All Benefit From Being Horizon Hunters.

When I Am Getting Ready To Cross A Street, I Look Both Ways Before Crossing. My Bones, My Muscles, Are Not What They Used To Be, So I Am Careful When I Go Up And Down Stairs, Because I've Heard Stories Of Older People Falling And Having Very Disabling Injuries. I Have Enough Things That Begin To Go A Little Bit Wrong As I Get A Little Bit Older.

At 10,000 Feet, The 3 Parachutes Would Come Out, A Little Lower The Pressure Of The Atmosphere Outside Was Greater Than Inside, And We Could Smell The Salt Air And It Was Very Encouraging To Return To Earth.

Absolutely The United States Should Lead In Space, For The Survival Of The United States. It's Inspiring For The Next Generation. If We Lose Leadership, Then We'll Be Using Chinese Capability To Inspire Americans.

It Was Designed To Have An Impact On The Stalemate Over Mutually Assured Destruction With The Soviet Union. Us Reaching The Moon Convinced Gorbachev And Other Leaders That The Soviet Union Couldn't Compete With The U.s., So They Revised Their Agenda. But People Have Short Memories.

I Don't Think We're Going To Build A 50-person Spacecraft Or A 100-person Spacecraft.

Somebody Would Think I Was Trying To Get Favored Treatment Because My Ancestors Had The Name Moon. And That's A Joke.

I'm In Favor Of Changing The Destination Of Humans. There Are A Lot Of Manned Missions That Can Be Done, But Not In The Direction Of The Moon.

I Think It's Inevitable That There Will Be Earthlings Establishing A Presence On Mars. And I Would Say That It Would Certainly Take Place By 2050 Or Shortly Thereafter.

When We Get There, If We Don't Find Any Life On Mars, From That Point On There Will Be Life On Mars Because We'll Bring It There, Whether It's Germs And Leftover Urine Bags, Whatever It Is.

The View From Space Is Like Having A Globe On Your Desk -- It's A Broadening Experience.

Russia Perhaps Is Still Entertaining The Possibility That The Moons Of Mars Might Have Access To Ice Or Water.

The Urge To Explore Has Propelled Evolution Since The First Water Creatures Reconnoitered The Land. Like All Living Systems, Cultures Cannot Remain Static; They Evolve Or Decline. They Explore Or Expire. . . . Beyond All Rationales, Space Flight Is A Spiritual Quest In The Broadest Sense, One Promising A Revitalization Of Humanity And A Rebirth Of Hope No Less Profound Than The Great Opening Out Of Mind And Spirit At The Dawn Of Our Modern Age.

We Feel That This Stands As A Symbol Of The Insatiable Curiosity Of All Mankind To Explore The Unknown.

We Can Continue To Try And Clean Up The Gutters All Over The World And Spend All Of Our Resources Looking At Just The Dirty Spots And Trying To Make Them Clean. Or We Can Lift Our Eyes Up And Look Into The Skies And Move Forward In An Evolutionary Way.

A Family Needs To Work As A Team, Supporting Each Other's Individual Aims And Aspirations.

Returning To The Moon With Nasa Astronauts Is Not The Best Usage Of Our Resources. Because Our Resources Should Be Directed To Outward, Beyond-the-moon, To Establishing Habitation And Laboratories On The Surface Of Mars That Can Be Built, Assembled, From The Close-by Moons Of Mars.

All The Chinese Have To Do Is Fly Around The Moon And Back, And They'll Appear To Have Won The Return To The Moon With Humans. They Could Put One Person On The Surface Of The Moon For One Day And He'd Be A National Hero.

The First Footfalls On Mars Will Mark A Historic Milestone, An Enterprise That Requires Human Tenacity Matched With Technology To Anchor Ourselves On Another World.

I Really Hate To Be Put In The Position Of Trying To Justify Something, A Decision That Was Made. I'm A Military Guy: When A Decision Is Made, I Go Along With It, Whatever The Manufactured Controversy And Criticism.

Unfortunately, Kids Are Led To Believe Things Are Easier To Achieve Than They Really Are.

By Venturing Into Space, We Improve Life For Everyone Here On Earth - Scientific Advances And Innovations That Come From This Kind Of Research Create Products We Use In Our Daily Lives.

Only A Large-volume Market Like Space Travel Can Attack The Barrier Of High Costs.

There Are A Lot Of Reasons For Not Doing Something. And If Humanity Had Come Up With All The Reasons For Not Doing Something We Wouldn't Have Spread Across The Earth The Way We Have. There's A Curiosity, And I Would Submit That That Curiosity Will Put Human Beings On The Surface Of Mars.

The Life Expectancy Of People Going To Mars May Be Decreased By The Higher Level Of Radiation That They Receive.

The Big Companies Are The Private Industry. But They're Faced With A Short-term Need To Show A Profit In Short-term.

Weve Got To Go [back To The Moon]. But We Dont Want To Stay Too Long. ... The Ultimate Goal Is Mars.

There's A Tremendously Satisfying Freedom Associated With Weightlessness. It's Challenging In The Absence Of Traction Or Leverage, And It Requires Thoughtful Readjustment. I Found The Experience Of Weightlessness To Be One Of The Most Fun And Enjoyable, Challenging And Rewarding, Experiences Of Spaceflight. Returning To Earth Brings With It A Great Sense Of Heaviness, And A Need For Careful Movement. In Some Ways It's Not Too Different From Returning From A Rocking Ocean Ship.

Do We Really Need These Big, Gigantic, Heavy Rockets? What If We Launch A Rocket That's Empty, And Its Sole Purpose Is To Act As A Source Of Fuel On The Moon? Who Should Build That? Well, I Think The U.s. Should Build That.

I Think There Would Be No Shortage Of Applicants To The Government Astronaut Corps To Be Settlers On The Planet Mars. And I Think This Would Be Very Inspiring.

I Was Not The Commander, I Was A Junior Person, So Once Both Were Outside, I Followed My Leader, Because We (nasa) Had Not Put Together Detailed Jobs Of People Outside. I Believe It Could Have Been Improved. But It Was Very Successful For What It Was.

As A Youngster, I Read Of Buck Rogers And Flash Gordon. As A Student, I Wrote English Reports On Science Fiction. And As A Fighter Pilot, I Observed The Selection Of The Mercury Astronauts. All This Was Fascinating, But I Really Didn't Think I Would Ever Be A Part Of It. It Was Only When My Good Friend Ed White Was Selected As A Gemini Astronaut That I Decided To Join Nasa As Part Of The Apollo Program.

Once You've Been First, It Cannot Be Done Again. Not By You, Not By Anyone Else.

Globalisation Means Many Other Countries Are Asserting Themselves And Trying To Take Over Leadership. Please Don't Ask Americans To Let Others Assume The Leadership Of Human Exploration. We Can Do Wonderful Science On The Moon, And Wonderful Commercial Things. Then We Can Pack Up And Move On To Mars.

I Don't Go Through Life Verbalizing What I Feel.

There's A Need For Accepting Responsibility - For A Person's Life And Making Choices That Are Not Just Ones For Immediate Short-term Comfort. You Need To Make An Investment, And The Investment Is In Health And Education.

To Me, Money Is A Commodity That A Person Must Have To Function, Not A Goal In Itself.

Mars Is There, Waiting To Be Reached.

We Have The Ability, At Such High Fidelity, To Simulate The Physical World Through Computers. But When The Spiritual World Or Human Behavior Comes Into Play, We Don't Have A Very Good Model For That At All.

Training Was Very Extensive, And We Dealt With Many Recoveries From Emergencies, And Fortunately, Participating And Observing And Existing Through The Reality Of Space Was A Once-in-a-lifetime Experience And It Was Not Marred By Unexpected Hazards Or Catastrophes.

I Wrote 'reaching For The Moon' Because I Wanted To Tell Kids That All Of Us Have A Moon, A Dream, That We Can Strive For. Even If You Don't Attain It, You Can At Least Reach For It.

In Space, You Don't Get That Much Noise. Noise Doesn't Propagate In A Vacuum.

I Felt Pretty Confident In Relieving Myself, Since I Had The Urge.

Nasa Needs To Focus On The Things That Are Really Important And That We Do Not Know How To Do. The Agency Is A Pioneering Force, And That Is Where Its Competitive Advantage Lies.

My Expertise Is The Space Program And What It Should Be In The Future Based On My Experience Of Looking At The Transitions That We've Made Between Pre-sputnik Days And Getting To The Moon.

I Understand That Detroit Was A Pretty Rough Place To Grow Up In The '70s And '80s.

The Purpose Of Going To Mars Is For Humans To First Begin To Occupy, Permanently, Another Planet In The Solar System. The Astronauts Or Pilgrims, Whatever You Might Call Them, Are Going To Be Very Historically Unique Human Beings.

Having Walked On The Moon, I Know Something About What We Need To Explore, Really Explore, In Space.

We Really Didn't Devote A Lot Of Time To Investigating The Scariest Aspects Of Our Flight. It Was More Challenging And Productive To Concentrate On The Remedies, And Leave Things That Couldn't Be Solved To Happen Without Thinking About Them. There Is A Morbid Human Curiosity Associated With Tragic Death-producing Events. Though Naturally, This Needs To Be Kept In Perspective.

The Beauty Of Hawaii Probably Surpasses Other Places. I Like The Big Island And The Two Mountains, Mauna Loa And Mauna Kea, Where You Can Look Out At The Stars.

Any Observations From The Moon Or A Sense Of Realising This Or That About The Greater Meaning Of Things Wasn't As Influential For Me As The Experience Of Coming Back And Dealing With Being A Person Who's Been To The Moon.

When We Can Demonstrate That We Can Take Off Horizontally And Put Something Into Orbit, Then We Can Begin To Talk About Increasing The Amount Of Payload. But To Say, 'i'm Going To Do That And Put People Into Orbit' Is A Real Leap.

To Move Forward, What's Required Is A Unified Space Agenda Based On Exploration, Science, Development, Commerce, And Security.

I'm Sure The Most Favorite Airplane In My Career Would Still Be The Sabre F86 Cleft Wing , Which Allowed Me To Be Credited With 2 Russian-built Mig-15 Destroyed During The Korean War. Where I Was In 1953.

Fear And Worry Are Emotions That Cloud The Mind From Being Able To Think Clearly, To Remember What The Procedures Are To Deal With That Emergency.

A Space Program That Truly Goes Somewhere! With His Deeds, Not Only Words, President Obama Has Revitalized Our Struggling Space Program.

The Guys Who Walk On Mars Are Going To Be Historic.

It's Real Easy To Manufacture What You Think The People Want To Hear. But That's Not Very Honest.

The Decision To Go To The Moon Is Now Appreciated And Associated With President Kennedy's Speech, But Somebody Else Had Told Him It Was A Good Idea. It Turned Out To Be A Good Commitment, But It Was A Unique Situation.

I Grew Up In A Country That I Thought Was Special. And It Was.

Everyone Should Take Their Hats Off To Neil Armstrong. He Is A Humble Guy Who Doesn't Wave His Own Flag.

I Am Excited To Think That The Development Of Commercial Capabilities To Send Humans Into Low Earth Orbit Will Likely Result In So Many More Earthlings Being Able To Experience The Transformative Power Of Space Flight.

You Need Propellants To Accelerate Toward Mars, Then To Decelerate At Mars, Again To Re-accelerate From Mars To Earth, And Finally To Decelerate Back At Earth. Accordingly, The Mass Of These Required Propellants, In Short, Drives Our Need For Innovative Launch Vehicles.

Unless We Are Able To Commit To A Permanent Growing Settlement [on Mars], Then I Don't Think Just Going There With Humans And Coming Back Is Worth Doing. The Expense Of Planning To Come Back Is Like The People Who Left Europe To Come To America And Then To Turn Around And Go Back To Europe, It Really Doesn't Make Any Sense At All.

If We Go Back To The Moon, We're Guaranteed Second, Maybe Third Place Because While We Are Spending All That Money, Russia Has Its Eye On Mars. Landing People On The Moon Will Be Terribly Consuming Of Resources We Don't Have. It Sounds Great - 'let's Go Back. This Time We're Going To Stay.' I Don't Know Why You Would Want To Stay On The Moon.

Computers Allow Us To Squeeze The Most Out Of Everything, Whether It's Google Looking Up Things, So I Guess That Tends To Make Us A Little Lazy About Reading Books And Doing Things The Hard Way To Understand How Those Things Work.

The Surface Of The Moon Is Like Nothing Here On Earth! It's Totally Lacking Any Evidence Of Life. It Has Lots Of Fine, Talcum-powderlike Dust Mixed With A Complete Variety Of Pebbles, Rocks, And Boulders. Many Pebbles, Fewer Rocks, And Even Fewer Boulders Naturally Make Up Its Surface. The Dust Is A Very Fine, Overall Dark Gray. And With No Air Molecules To Separate The Dust, It Clings Together Like Cement.

My First Biography Written In '73 Was Not 'journey To The Moon.' It Was 'return To Earth.' Because For Me, That Was The More Difficult Task - Disappointment.

The Biggest Benefit Of Apollo Was The Inspiration It Gave To A Growing Generation To Get Into Science And Aerospace.

Knowledge Of The Past And An Optimistic View Of The Present Give You Great Opportunities.

Every Couple Of Years, We Could Dispatch People From Earth To Mars.

My Own American Dream Was To Serve My Country As Best I Could And Make A Difference In America - And In The World.

History Gets Reinterpreted As Time Goes On. Many Times, The Participants Are Lost In The Retelling Of The Story.

There's No Doubt Who Was A Leader In Space After The Apollo Program. Nobody Came Close To Us. And Our Education System, In Science, Technology, Engineering And Math, Was At The Top Of The World. It's No Longer There. We're Descending Rather Rapidly.

My Family Has Always Supported My Activities, Whether It Was Doing Combat In Korea, Flying Progressively And Challenging Fighter-jet Aircraft In Europe, Or Studying For A Doctor's Degree At Mit. They Have Been Always Very Supportive And Understanding Of The Challenges And Risks Involved In My Career. A Family Needs To Work As A Team, Supporting Each Other's Individual Aims And Aspirations.

A Mind Concerned About Danger Is A Clouded Mind. It's Paralyzing.

I'm Sure That There Are Places In The Deserts In Australia That Could Be Similar To Where We Might Want To Go On Mars.

Fighter Pilots Have Ice In Their Veins. They Don't Have Emotions. They Think, Anticipate. They Know That Fear And Other Concerns Cloud Your Mind From What's Going On And What You Should Be Involved In.

Mars Has A Bit Of Air Pressure; Maybe We Can Build Up That Atmosphere To Be A Bit More Accommodating To Humans.

America Can Take Man To The Moon, And America Can Take Men To Mars - And Beyond.

Neil Armstrong Was The First Man To Walk On The Moon. I Am The First Man To Piss His Pants On The Moon.

As We Reflect Back Upon The Tragic Loss Of Challenger And Her Brave Crew Of Heroes Who Were Aboard That Fateful Day, I Am Reminded That They Truly Represented The Best Of Us, As They Climbed Aloft On A Plume Of Propellant Gasses, Reaching For The Stars, To Inspire Us Who Were Earthbound.

This Has Been Far More Than Three Men On A Mission To The Moon; More Still Than The Efforts Of A Government And Industry Team; More, Even, Than The Efforts Of One Nation. We Feel This Stands As A Symbol Of The Insatiable Curiosity Of All Mankind To Explore The Unknown.

I Was The First Navy, Marine Or Air Force Person Who Had Been An Astronaut To Return Back To The Air Force. I Had Certain Expectations About What Would Be A Reasonable And Desirable Position To Be Assigned To After My Years Of Service.

If You Want Poets In Space, You'll Have To Wait.

There May Be Aliens In Our Milky Way Galaxy, And There Are Billions Of Other Galaxies. The Probability Is Almost Certain That There Is Life Somewhere In Space.

We Need To Begin Thinking About Building Permanence On The Red Planet, Not Just Have Voyagers Do Some Experiments, Plant A Flag And Claim Success. Having Them Go There, Repeat This, In My View, Is Dim-witted. Why Not Stay There?

The Future Is About Wings And Wheels And New Forms Of Space Transportation, Along With Our Deep-space Ambition To Set Foot On Another World In Our Solar System: Mars. I Firmly Believe We Will Establish Permanence On That Planet. And In Reaching For That Goal, We Can Cultivate Commercial Development Of The Moon, The Asteroid Belt, The Red Planet Itself And Beyond.

I Want To Reach A New Generation. That's Why I Am Twittering Now. I Have A Blackberry, An Iphone And A Mac.

Because Of His Military Service, Dad Was Buried In Arlington National Cemetery.

As Time Goes By, I'm Increasingly Impressed By How Very Special And Timely It Was That We Got The Degree Of National Commitment Needed To Put People On The Moon. For The First Time, This Nation Was United In Trying To Develop An Interplanetary Capability. We've Been Trying To Repeat That Situation Ever Since.

Certainly, I've Never Wanted To Live On Past Achievements.

I Think The Public Needs To Be Reminded Just How Much Inspiration And Intention Was Given Throughout The World To Be Bold, To Send Human Beings To The Moon In The '60s And The '70s. It's Important Now To Bring Together The Nations That Weren't Able To Do It Then And Help Them Do It. We Need To Move Forward.

The Energy Varies With The Square Of The Velocity, So If You Need Five Times The Velocity, That's 25 Times The Energy.

I Think I Need To Continue To Think And Plan And Marry All Of The Different Things That We Could Do That Make Transportation In Space From The Earth To The Space Station, From The Earth To The Moon To Space Stations Around The Moon To Visiting An Asteroid.

For A Million Dollars, The Russians Would Take Two People, A Million Apiece, Around The Moon And Back. However, Stories, Videos That Come From The Space Station, And Other People, Are A Great Inspiration To Young People For An Exciting Career Field.

Astronauts Are Not Superhuman. They Lead Ordinary Lives And Have Varied Personalities.

You Can Never Tell When A Commercial Space Venture Will Suddenly Become Viable.

Mars Could Very Well Be A Staging Location For The Resources Of The Asteroid Belt. We Have To Learn How To Get A Payback Somewhere, But It's Beyond Mars That The Real Payoff Will Come From Minerals.

Everyone Who's Been In Space Would, I'm Sure, Welcome The Opportunity For A Return To The Exhilarating Experiences There. For Me, A Flight In A Shuttle, Though Most Satisfying, Would Be Anticlimactic After My Flight To The Moon. Plus, If I Pursued A Flight Myself, People Would Think That Was The Reason I Am Trying To Generate Interest In Public Spaceflight. And That's Not The Purpose - I Want To Generate Interest In Long-range Space Exploration.

America Must Dream Again, And Have The Faith To Achieve The Dream.

I Think The People Who Experienced The Apollo Missions Came Away From That Experience Wondering To Themselves, 'when Can We Get A Chance To Experience Spaceflight?' I've Heard That Many, Many Times: That People Got Into A New Career Field Hoping That They Would Be Able To Experience Spaceflight.

We Need To Have People Up There Who Can Communicate What It Feels Like, Not Just Pilots And Engineers.

The Final Frontier May Be Human Relationships, One Person To Another.

Most People Never Believed In The Real Possibility Of Going To The Moon, And Neither Did I Until I Was In My Twenties.

A Hybrid Human-robot Mission To Investigate An Asteroid Affords A Realistic Opportunity To Demonstrate New Technological Capabilities For Future Deep-space Travel And To Test Spacecraft For Long-duration Spaceflight.

There Is Very Little Doubt, In My Mind, That What The Next Monumental Achievement Of Humanity Will Be The First Landing By An Earthling, A Human Being, On The Planet Mars.

Unfortunately, Pioneers Will Always Pave The Way With Sacrifices.

Is The Destiny Of The Human Species To Sit Back And Play With Our Mouse And Computer And Imagine, Fantasize?

I Expected The Unexpected And Went [on The Moon] With An Open Mind. I Think The Visual Scene Was Described By My Words On First Landing - "magnificent Desolation." Magnificent For The Achievement Of Being There, And Desolate For The Eons Of Lifelessness.

We Must Still Think Of Ourselves As Pioneers To Understand The Importance Of Space.

Exploring And Colonizing Mars Can Bring Us New Scientific Understanding Of Climate Change, Of How Planet-wide Processes Can Make A Warm And Wet World Into A Barren Landscape. By Exploring And Understanding Mars, We May Gain Key Insights Into The Past And Future Of Our Own World.

I Have No Intention Of Selling Any More Of The Historical Apollo 11 Items In My Possession For The Remainder Of My Life. I Intend To Pass A Portion Of These Items On To My Children And To Loan The Most Important Items For Permanent Display In Suitable Museums Around The Country.

Mars Has Been Flown By, Orbited, Smacked Into, Radar Examined, And Rocketed Onto, As Well As Bounced Upon, Rolled Over, Shoveled, Drilled Into, Baked And Even Blasted. Still To Come: Mars Being Stepped On.

Ray Bradbury Is One Who Is Contributing To The Understanding Of The Imagination And The Curiosity Of The Human Race.

I Suggest That Going To Mars Means Permanence On The Planet - A Mission By Which We Are Building Up A Confidence Level To Become A Two-planet Species.

Pascal Lee Is A True Pioneer Of Mars Exploration.

When You're In A Spacecraft, You Need To Know What Things You Can Touch And What Things You Shouldn't Touch!

Mars Is Far More Attractive As An Outpost Colony For Earthlings Than The Moon Is.

The Pilgrims On The Mayflower Landed At Plymouth Rock. To My Knowledge, They Didn't Wait Around For A Return Trip To Europe. You Settle Some Place With A Purpose. If You Don't Want To Do That, Stay Home. You Avoid An Awful Lot Of Risks By Not Venturing Outward.

Space Tourism Is A Logical Outgrowth Of The Adventure Tourist Market.

There's No Guarantee That The United States Will Be Around 200 Years From Now.

Guarantees That

Exploration Is Wired Into Our Brains. If We Can See The Horizon, We Want To Know What's Beyond.

What Are You Going To Do With Astronauts Who First Reach The Surface Of Mars And Then Turn Around And Rocket Back Home-ward? What Are They Going To Do, Write Their Memoirs? Would They Go Again? Having Them Repeat The Voyage, In My View, Is Dim-witted. Why Don't They Stay There On Mars?

Let's Not Spend Resources That We Don't Need To Be Sending Astronauts Back To The Moon. Let's Not Spend Expensive Resources On Bringing People Who Have Reached Mars Back Again. Prepare Them To Become A Growing Colony.

My First Inclination Is To Be A Bit Skeptical About The Claims That Human-produced Carbon Dioxide Is The Direct Contributor To Global Warming.

My Favourite Thing To Do On This Planet Is To Scuba Dive.

Instead Of Planning The Retirement Of The Space Shuttle Program, America Should Be Preparing The Shuttles For Their Next Step In Space: Evolving, Not Shutting Them Down And Laying Off Thousands Of People.

I Poured The Wine Into The Chalice Our Church Had Given Me. In The One-sixth Gravity Of The Moon The Wine Curled Slowly And Gracefully Up The Side Of The Cup. It Was Interesting To Think That The Very First Liquid Ever Poured On The Moon, And The First Food Eaten There, Were Communion Elements.

The Honor You Have Given Us Goes Not To Us As A Crew, But To ... All Americans, Who Believed, Who Persevered With Us. What Apollo Has Begun We Hope Will Spread Out In Many Directions, Not Just In Space, But Underneath The Seas, And In The Cities To Tell Us Unforgettably What We Will And Must Do. There Are Footprints On The Moon. Those Footprints Belong To Each And Every One Of You, To All Mankind. They Are There Because Of The Blood, Sweat, And Tears Of Millions Of People. Those Footprints Are The Symbol Of True Human Spirit.

I'm Not In Favor Of Just Taking Short-term Isolated Situations And Depleting Our Resources To Keep Our Climate Just The Way It Is Today.

I Don't Believe Any Pair Of People Had Been More Removed Physically From The Rest Of The World Than We Were.

The Leader Of An Earth Organization Who Makes A Commitment To History - Of Humans Living On Earth, To Begin Permanent Settlement/occupation Of Not The Moon, But Of Another Planet - This Leader Will Have A Legacy For History That Will Supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan Or Almost Any Recognized Leader.

Drive Over To The Nearest Airport, And Enroll In Flight Classes. You Will Experience The Joy Of Freedom In The Air Above, As You Study The Mechanics Of How This Is Made Possible By Understanding The Construction, The Laws Of Motion, The Air That Can Provide Lift When It Is Moved By Propulsion Through The Air, And Stay Above The Gravity Pulling The Airplane Back Down To Earth.

Armstrong Described The Lunar Surface As 'beautiful.' I Thought To Myself, 'it's Not Really Beautiful. It's Magnificent That We're Here, But What A Desolate Place We Are Visiting.'

We're Number One On The Runway.

I Am Definitely Not Rich.

Not Everyone Can Be An Astronaut And Go Into Space, Some People With Sufficient Resources Can Purchase And Fly Sub-orbitally Thanks To Various Companies And For More Money (considerably) Fly Into Orbit.

We Can't Start Over And Develop A Saturn 5-type Vehicle From Scratch.

The Society Of Life On Mars, Or The Challenge Of Making Mars More Livable, Will Have Significant Benefits On Our Attempts To Modify And Change In Some Ways The Environment Here On Earth.

Heavy Lifting Doesn't Need To Be Heavy Spending If We Do The Job Right.

I Inherited Depression From My Mother's Side Of The Family.

If We Can Conquer Space, We Can Conquer Childhood Hunger.

The Much-hyped Ares 1-x Was Much Ado About Nothing.

I've Led A Life Of Such Structured Discipline And Always Had A Goal In Mind Of Knowing What I Was Doing, From West Point To The Air Force Combat, Mit, Looking For New Things To Study And Get Involved In. And Then I Got Into The Space Program, And How Disciplined Can You Get?

Look At What Silicon Valley Has Done - The Advance Of Computers.

I Grew Up In New Jersey And Never Went Up The Statue Of Liberty.

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