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

This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.