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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.

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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.

Mars Is There, Waiting To Be Reached.

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.

Unfortunately, Pioneers Will Always Pave The Way With Sacrifices.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Guarantees That

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

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

I Do Celebrity Ski Races All Over The World.

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'.

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.

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.

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

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