We're number one on the runway.
Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.