There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.