The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

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

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!