Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth do….

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?.

I am definitely not rich..

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume….

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. ….

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications..

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!.

I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificen….

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..

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….

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 experienc….

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers..

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, bu….

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and sta….

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations..

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties..

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very ….

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 ….

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there..

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make ….

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone..