There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.