Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

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