Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.