Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.