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.
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.
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
Saya datang untuk mendedikasikan hidup saya untuk membuka ruang bagi orang kebanyakan dan membuat desain untuk pesawat luar angkasa baru yang dapat membawa kami jauh dari rumah. Tapi sejak Apollo berakhir, perjalanan seperti itu hanya ada dalam ingatan kolektif kita.
My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
Mengirim manusia kembali ke bulan tidak akan berarti apa-apa. Itu akan lebih dari 50 tahun setelah pendaratan di bulan pertama ketika kami sampai di sana, dan kami mungkin akan disambut oleh orang Cina. Tapi kita harus kembali ke bulan tanpa astronot dan membangun, dengan robot, pangkalan bulan internasional, sehingga kita tahu bagaimana membangun pangkalan di Mars secara robotik.
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 have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
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'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
Saya datang untuk mendedikasikan hidup saya untuk membuka ruang bagi orang kebanyakan dan membuat desain untuk pesawat luar angkasa baru yang dapat membawa kami jauh dari rumah. Tapi sejak Apollo berakhir, perjalanan seperti itu hanya ada dalam ingatan kolektif kita.
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.