One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
It’s time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn’t wave his own flag.
I failed music when I was a teenager.
Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
Heavy lifting doesn’t need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they’ll lessen somewhat.
I don’t think we’re going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.
I don’t go through life verbalizing what I feel.
I do celebrity ski races all over the world.
During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That’s a stunt! That’s not historic.
The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.