People Try To Typecast Astronauts As Heroic

Another Hundred Years May Pass Before We Understand The True Significance Of Apollo. Lunar Exploration Was Not The Equivalent Of An American Pyramid, Some Idle Monument To Technology, But More Of A Rosetta Stone, A Key To Unlocking Dreams As Yet Undreamed.

I Hold The World Speed Record Downhill, In A Rover. I Think It Was 17 Kilometers Per Hour, Downhill.

Chemical Propulsion Is Obsolete To Go Anywhere Other Than The Moon.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.

Curiosity Is The Essence Of Human Existence.

The Moon Is Bland In Color. I Call It Shades Of Gray. You Know, The Only Color We See Is What We Bring Or The Earth, Which Is Looking Down Upon Us All The Time. And To Find Orange Soil On The Moon Was A Surprise.