Mom Was Always Doing Something For Somebody.

Curiosity Is The Essence Of Human Existence And Exploration Has Been Part Of Humankind For A Long Time. The Exploration Of Space, Like The Exploration Of Life, If You Will, Is A Risk. We've Got To Be Willing To Take It.

We Went Into Darkness After Being In Daylight The Whole Time On The Way To The Moon. And Then We Went Into Darkness. And We're In The Shadow... Of The Moon.

Chemical Propulsion Is Obsolete To Go Anywhere Other Than The Moon. Three Days - That's Acceptable. But For Mars, We Need Propulsion Technologies To Get Us There In, Say, 60 Days - Then Spend Whatever Length Of Time We Want To Spend And Return When We Want To Come Home.

If You Begin To Think You're Something You're Not, You're Looking In The Wrong Mirror.

Am I Willing To Go To Mars? Yes, But I'm Not Willing To Spend Nine Months Getting There, Then Wait 18 More Months Until The Planets Align To Come Home.