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I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
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The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.
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Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.
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I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
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Climate has been changing for billions of years.
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You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.
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We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
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You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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I am definitely not rich.
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To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
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Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.
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There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons -- and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.
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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.
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When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.