Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

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

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.