Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

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