There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.