Astronaut

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

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.

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

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 want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

Saat Anda pergi ke Mars, Anda harus membuat keputusan bahwa Anda berada di sana secara permanen. Semakin banyak orang yang kita miliki di sana, semakin bisa menjadi lingkungan yang mendukung. Kecuali untuk pengecualian yang sangat jarang, orang yang pergi ke Mars tidak boleh kembali. Begitu Anda berada di permukaan, Anda berada di sana.