We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.
When you’re in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn’t touch!
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.
What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.
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.
Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.
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.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things 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.
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?
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 universe is the way it is. It’s not going to be changed by supplications.
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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.
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn’t do that again.