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Astronauts Working For The Government Will Always Need To Be Either Pilots Or Mission Specialists. Those Who Want To Be Pilots Should Have Military Experience - Ideally, A Test Pilot Background.

Somebody Would Think I Was Trying To Get Favored Treatment Because My Ancestors Had The Name Moon. And That's A Joke.

Mars Could Very Well Be A Staging Location For The Resources Of The Asteroid Belt. We Have To Learn How To Get A Payback Somewhere, But It's Beyond Mars That The Real Payoff Will Come From Minerals.

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. We've Become More Materialistic. For Balance, I Think We Need To Get Back To Idealism And Patriotism, But Also Be Realistic With Our Monetary Goals.

Russia Perhaps Is Still Entertaining The Possibility That The Moons Of Mars Might Have Access To Ice Or Water.