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.

If we go back to the moon, we’re guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly...

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

‘Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame’ tells it like it really was in America’s early space program – the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that’s a joke.

My father’s an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

America’s can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country’s ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It’s inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we’ll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

It’s time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

I think it’s inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

In space, you don’t get that much noise. Noise doesn’t propagate in a vacuum.

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers’ airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we’d thought it would be. There weren’t any balance problems, so you weren’t tumbling over.

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is...

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

The big companies are the private industry. But they’re faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

My first biography written in ’73 was not ‘Journey To The Moon.’ It was ‘Return To Earth.’ Because for me, that was the more difficult task – disappointment.

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.

We can’t start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

Certainly, I’ve never wanted to live on past achievements.

Let’s not spend resources that we don’t need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let’s not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a...

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

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...

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don’t have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what’s going on and what you should be involved in.

There’s no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world....

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

I’m convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we’re eventually going to run out...

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

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.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you’re there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions,...

Tang sucks.

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit...

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may...

Everyone who’s been in space would, I’m sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history – of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet – this leader will have...

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.