There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

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.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.