Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
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 dim-witted. Why not stay there?
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
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 stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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 last man was?
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
I do celebrity ski races all over the world.
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.
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
'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.
With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
