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

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

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

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

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