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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

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

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

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

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars ... and then on the surface.

We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

We're number one on the runway.

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons ... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

I am definitely not rich.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

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

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk
it's a broadening experience.

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.

The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.