I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.
My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
