The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.
Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.
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.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.