Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?