For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

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