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Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.