Mars Is There, Waiting To

You Need Propellants To Accelerate Toward Mars, Then To Decelerate At Mars, Again To Re-accelerate From Mars To Earth, And Finally To Decelerate Back At Earth. Accordingly, The Mass Of These Required Propellants, In Short, Drives Our Need For Innovative Launch Vehicles.

My Sunday Mornings Are Spent In A Recovery Meeting In Pacific Palisades.

To Send Humans Back To The Moon Would Not Be Advancing. It Would Be More Than 50 Years After The First Moon Landing When We Got There, And We'd Probably Be Welcomed By The Chinese. But We Should Return To The Moon Without Astronauts And Build, With Robots, An International Lunar Base, So That We Know How To Build A Base On Mars Robotically.

Armstrong Described The Lunar Surface As 'beautiful.' I Thought To Myself, 'it's Not Really Beautiful. It's Magnificent That We're Here, But What A Desolate Place We Are Visiting.'

The Universe Is The Way It Is. It's Not Going To Be Changed By Supplications.