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

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.