Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it’s turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars… and then on the surface.
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.
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?
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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.
Just as Mars – a desert planet – gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
It’s real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that’s not very honest.
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers’ airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
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.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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.
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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.
In Mars, we’ve been given a wonderful set of moons… where we can send continuous numbers of people.
I am definitely not rich.
We should’ve asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should’ve worked out ways that we can… just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that’s needed to help each other.
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family.
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
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.
I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.
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.
I failed music when I was a teenager.
Everyone who’s been in space would, I’m sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
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.
I am Buzz Lightyear!
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet – a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
People come up to me and say, ‘It’s too bad the space program got canceled.’ This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
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.
I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
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.
It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn’t a slouch.
My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
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 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.
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.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That’s a stunt! That’s not historic.
I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It’s not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
Tang sucks.
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America – and in the world.
I am Buzz Lightyear!
NASA’s been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it’s sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
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.
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven’t heard him say, ‘Let’s junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.’ He’s not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
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.
Kids, help your parents if they don’t know how to use a smartphone.
Armstrong described the lunar surface as ‘beautiful.’ I thought to myself, ‘It’s not really beautiful. It’s magnificent that we’re here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.’
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.
I want to reach a new generation. That’s why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
You can tell I’m not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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.
Look at what Silicon Valley has done – the advance of computers.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
