To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
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I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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.
One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.'
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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