Having Walked On The Moon,

To Appropriately Respond To An Emergency Requires A Very Clear Mind, To Cooly Analyze What The Observations Are And How To Fix It.

Did The Pilgrims On The Mayflower Sit Around Plymouth Rock Waiting For A Return Trip? They Came Here To Settle. And That's What We Should Be Doing On Mars. When You Go To Mars, You Need To Have Made The Decision That You're There Permanently. The More People We Have There, The More It Can Become A Sustaining Environment. Except For Very Rare Exceptions, The People Who Go To Mars Shouldn't Be Coming Back. Once You Get On The Surface, You're There.

To Move Forward, What's Required Is A Unified Space Agenda Based On Exploration, Science, Development, Commerce, And Security.

America Can Take Man To The Moon, And America Can Take Men To Mars - And Beyond.

It's Not Easy To Get Human Beings Into Orbit. So Far Only Three Nations Have Been Able To Do That, With All The Resources That They Put Together. And I'm Just A Little Skeptical That That's Going To Be Done By The Private Sector Without Making Use Of What Has Been Done By The Government.