It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.