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

When I Was A Little Kid, We Only Knew About Our Nine Planets. Since Then, We've Downgraded Pluto But Have Discovered That Other Solar Systems And Stars Are Common. So Life Is Probably Quite Prevalent.

The Feeling Of Reduced Gravity And The Limitations Of The Space Suit Resulted In A Slow-motion Movement. Perhaps Not Too Far From A Trampoline, But Without The Springiness And Instability.

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

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.'

When We Set Out To Land People On The Surface Of Mars, I Think We Should As A Nation, As A World, Commit Ourselves To Supporting A Growing Settlement And Colonization There. To Visit A Few Times And Then Withdraw Would Be An Unforgivable Waste Of Resources.

There's A Historical Milestone In The Fact That Our Apollo 11 Landing On The Moon Took Place A Mere 66 Years After The Wright Brothers' First Flight.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Standing On The Moon Looking Back At Earth - This Lovely Place You Just Came From - You See All The Colours, And You Know What They Represent. Having Left The Water Planet, With All That Water Brings To Earth In Terms Of Colour And Abudance Life, The Absence Of Water And Atmosphere On The Desolate Surface Of The Moon Gives Rise To A Stark Contrast.

There Are Always Door Openings. And Gradually, It Accumulates. The Opportunities Open Up In Front Of You.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

As A Student, I Wrote English Reports On Science Fiction.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

No Dream Is Too High For Those With Their Eyes In The Sky!

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

Some Things Just Can't Be Described. And Stepping Onto The Moon Was One Of Them.

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.

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

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.

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'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?

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.

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.

Climate Has Been Changing For Billions Of Years.

We're Number One On The Runway.

We Should Go Boldly Where Man Has Not Gone Before. Fly By The Comets, Visit Asteroids, Visit The Moon Of Mars. There's A Monolith There. A Very Unusual Structure On This Potato Shaped Object That Goes Around Mars Once In Seven Hours. When People Find Out About That They're Going To Say 'who Put That There? Who Put That There?' The Universe Put It There. If You Choose, God Put It There.

I Shot Down Two Airplanes In Korea, So I Wasn't A Slouch.

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.

In Mars, We've Been Given A Wonderful Set Of Moons Where We Can Send Continuous Numbers Of People.

Don't Waste Your Time On Beaming People Up Or Down. Instead, Consider Gravity Waves As Advanced Physics Of The Universe That Could Be Used To Travel Interstellar Distances.

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

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

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.

My Sunday Mornings Are Spent In A Recovery Meeting In Pacific Palisades.

Sending A Couple Of Guys To The Moon And Bringing Them Back Safely? That's A Stunt! That's Not Historic.

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

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

Going To Mars Would Evolve Humankind Into A Two-planet Species.

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.

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.

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.

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

Does It Make Sense For The U.s. To Expend Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars To Mount A New Apollo-style Program To Return To The Moon? Or Have We Blazed That Trail? Shouldn't We Help Other Nations Achieve This Goal With Their Own Resources But With Our Help?

I Have No Doubt That Humans Will Go To Mars. And I Feel That America Has Led So Many Things In Space - We Have Invested So Much, And We Have A Lot To Gain - That America Could And Should Be The Nation That Should Lead The Settlement Of Mars.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mars, We Know, Was Once Wet And Warm. Was It Home To Life? And What Can Living And Learning To Work On Its Rust-colored Surface Teach Us About The Future Of Our Own Planet, Earth? Answering Those Mysteries May Hold The Key To Our Future.

Unfortunately, Pioneers Will Always Pave The Way With Sacrifices.

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

The G-forces Increased And I Wasn't Able To Continue To Hold The Camera Against The Window, So I Had To Lay It Back Against My Chest, But Still Continued To Photograph The Re-entry Until There Was No More Unusual Visual Effects Of The Energy In The Atmosphere. And It Was Very Comforting To Understand That The People In Houston, The Controllers, Had Very High Confidence That We Were On The Right Path.

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.

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

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.

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.

There Were About Six Years When There Was Not One American Who Went Into Space. We Shouldn't Do That Again.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There Are A Lot Of People That Get Interested In Something, And They Hear About It, And They Read About It, And Then They Watch It Happen, And That's Why I Had Quite An Interest In The Lottery Because You'd Interest A Lot Of People, And Then Just A Few Would Win A Chance To Do Something.

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.

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.

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

The Best Way To Study Mars Is With Two Hands, Eyes And Ears Of A Geologist, First At A Moon Orbiting Mars... And Then On The Surface.

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.

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

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

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.

I've Been To The Titanic In A Yellow Submarine And The North Pole In A Russian Nuclear Ice Breaker.

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

I Think The American Dream Used To Be Achieving One's Goals In Your Field Of Choice-and From That All Other Things Would Follow. Now, I Think The Dream Has Morphed Into The Pursuit Of Money: Accumulate Enough Of It, And The Rest Will Follow. We've Become More Materialistic. For Balance, I Think We Need To Get Back To Idealism And Patriotism, But Also Be Realistic With Our Monetary Goals.

I Think Humans Will Reach Mars, And I Would Like To See It Happen In My Lifetime.

They Didn’t Tell Me I Was Going Into Space Until After They Locked The Shuttle Doors And Started Counting Down.

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

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

I Realize That My Life Is Not The Common Ordinary Person.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

As Someone Who Flew Two Space Capsules And Twice Landed In The Ocean, I Can Attest From Personal Experience How Much Logistics Work Is Needed To Get You Home.

It's Been One Of The Greatest Challenges That Ever Came Along In My Life; It Was One Of The More Difficult Things To Do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When President Kennedy Took Office, I Was In The Midst Of My Education.

President Kennedy

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

To Appropriately Respond To An Emergency Requires A Very Clear Mind, To Cooly Analyze What The Observations Are And How To Fix It.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Kids, Help Your Parents If They Don't Know How To Use A Smartphone.

Timing Has Always Been A Key Element In My Life. I Have Been Blessed To Have Been In The Right Place At The Right Time.

My Petite Little Platinum Blonde Beauty Of A Wife Suddenly Turned Into A Public-relations Dynamo. "the Business Is Buzz!" She Proclaimed, And Indeed So It Became.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Being First Outside The Spacecraft Would Bring Much More Responsibility, And I Really Wasn't Looking For That.

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

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.

'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.

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

Save The Taxpayer's Money By Canceling The Ares 1 And V.

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

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

Just As Mars - A Desert Planet - Gives Us Insights Into Global Climate Change On Earth, The Promise Awaits For Bringing Back To Life Portions Of The Red Planet Through The Application Of Earth Science To Its Similar Chemistry, Possibly Reawakening Its Life-bearing Potential.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Over The Years, I Think I've Matured In My Spiritual Evolution And Development To Understand A Bit More Than The Narrow Religious Thinking - To Move Beyond That Through A Sort Of Perfection Of The Grandiose Nature Of The Universe, And How Perfect It Is It In Its Sense And How Satisfied We Should All Be In Our Place In That.

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

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

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

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.

At The Core Of The Risk-free Society Is A Self-indulgent Failure Of Nerve.

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

The Government Needs A Role In Carrying Out Exploration. They Will Be Leading The Development Of The Engines That Are Needed, And The Private Sector Will Take Advantage Of Those.

By Refocusing Our Space Program On Mars For America's Future, We Can Restore The Sense Of Wonder And Adventure In Space Exploration That We Knew In The Summer Of 1969. We Won The Moon Race; Now It's Time For Us To Live And Work On Mars, First On Its Moons And Then On Its Surface.

Dwelling On An Engine Failure For A Pilot As He Rolls Down The Runway Is Not What He Should Be Thinking About - It's Obtaining A Smooth Liftoff! But In The Back Of His Mind, He Knows Exactly What To Do (or Pretty Much) And In Many Cases, If He's Alone In The Fighter Aircraft, He Has To Leave That Aircraft In An Ejection Seat In A Big Hurry!

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

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.

When The Time Comes To Start Building Deep Space Transports And Refueling Rocket Tankers, It Will Be The Commercial Industry That Steps Up, Not Another Government-owned, Government-managed Enterprise.

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.

Human Rights Problems Will Always Exist For Years To Come, But Maybe They'll Lessen Somewhat.

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

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.

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.

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

Long-term, I See Robotics Prevailing On The Moon. . . . The Most Important Decision We'll Have To Make About Space Travel Is Whether To Commit To A Permanent Human Presence On Mars. Without It, We'll Never Be A True Space-faring People.

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

During The Divorce Process, I Lived Alone And Tended To Get Extremely Down On Myself.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Was Motivated To Improve The U.s. Strategy Of Going Back To The Moon In 1985. That's A Long Time Ago. Going Back To The Moon Would Be A Great Achievement For Tourism Adventure Flights.

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

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?

Space Architectures Capable Of Supporting A Permanent Human Presence On Mars Are Extraordinarily Complex, With Many Different Interdependent Systems.

I Feel We Need To Remind The World About The Apollo Missions And That We Can Still Do Impossible Things.

Impossible Things

Exploring Mars Is A Far Different Venture From Apollo Expeditions To The Moon; It Necessitates Leaving Our Home Planet On Lengthy Missions With A Constrained Return Capability.

The First Human Beings To Land On Mars Should Not Come Back To Earth. They Should Be The Beginning Of A Build-up Of A Colony/settlement, I Call It A 'permanence'.

To Send Humans Back To The Moon Would Not Be Advancing. It Would Be More Than 50 Years After The First Moon Landing When We Got There, And We'd Probably Be Welcomed By The Chinese. But We Should Return To The Moon Without Astronauts And Build, With Robots, An International Lunar Base, So That We Know How To Build A Base On Mars Robotically.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I Was Lucky Enough To Have Been Born On This Planet Earth, In This Admirable Country Of The United States Of America.

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