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

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

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.

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.

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

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!

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.