Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
From Buzz Aldrin
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
I am Buzz Lightyear!
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.
The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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