We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

We're number one on the runway.

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.

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.