Occupation: Astronaut Birth: January 20, 1930
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers..
It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev ….
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the ….
The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not th….
Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine,….
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself..
By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create….
Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the….
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 litter….
We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on t….
I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to th….
Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources o….
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since….
The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector ….
I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs….
America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream..
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy..
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers..
Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs..
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities..
I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'.