As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
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.
The view from space is like having a globe on your desk – it’s a broadening experience.
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.
America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.
I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
The big companies are the private industry. But they’re faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
Certainly, I’ve never wanted to live on past achievements.
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
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.
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 think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
I didn’t start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I’m proficiently conservative.
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.