Astronaut

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

Membawa asteroid kembali ke Bumi? Apa hubungannya dengan eksplorasi luar angkasa? Jika kita bergerak keluar dari sana, dan asteroid adalah titik perhentian yang baik, maka baiklah. Tapi sekarang itu berubah menjadi latihan pertahanan planet secara keseluruhan dengan mengorbankan eksplorasi luar kita.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

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.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

Perjalanan ke Mars, Bulan, bahkan orbit, akan mengharuskan kita memberikan kenyamanan sebanyak mungkin kepada para astrotouris dari rumah, termasuk saling membayar.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

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.

I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.