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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.

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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.

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Nobody Ever Asks Who Was The Seventh Person On The Moon. The Only Thing They Know Is Who's Number One And Who's Number Two. Does Anybody Know Who The Last Man Was?

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

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.

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.

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

Building Things

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.

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.

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

Science Fiction

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

Pascal Lee Is A True Pioneer Of Mars Exploration.

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

President Kennedy

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

We're Number One On The Runway.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Bravery Comes Along As A Gradual Accumulation Of Discipline.

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

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

Guarantees That

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

History Will Remember The Inhabitants Of This Century As The People Who Went From Kitty Hawk To The Moon In 66 Years, Only To Languish For The Next 30 In Low Earth Orbit. At The Core Of The Risk-free Society Is A Self-indulgent Failure Of Nerve.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's Time To Open The Space Frontier To Citizen Explorers.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Climate Has Been Changing For Billions Of Years.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We Need The Next Generation To Be Motivated And To Push Technological Boundaries, To Seek Out New Innovations.

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.

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.

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.

I Came To Dedicate My Life To Opening Space To The Average Person And Crafting Designs For New Spaceships That Could Take Us Far From Home. But Since Apollo Ended, Such Travels Were Only In Our Collective Memory.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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 Am Definitely Not Rich.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There Should Be An International Lunar Base. That Is Certainly Doable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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