Too Many People, When They Get Old,

We're Going To Go To The Moon. We're Going To Go On To Mars. We're Going To Set Up A Base On The Moon. Ok, But No Money To Pay For It, Nothing In The Budget For It. And So The Decision Made At That Time Was To Cancel The Whole Shuttle Program To Save Money, Which I Think Was Very, Very Short Sighted.

The Most Important Thing We Can Do Is Inspire Young Minds And To Advance The Kind Of Science, Math And Technology Education That Will Help Youngsters Take Us To The Next Phase Of Space Travel.

Exploration, Of Course, Is Going To New Places, But I Don't Think We Go To New Places Just Solely To Say: "well, We've Been There," And Come Back, Interesting Though It May Be. To Me, Each Time We Go Farther Into Space We Should Use That To Do Basic Research - Basic Research That Can't Be Done Before You Go There.

I Think Sometime We Will Go To Mars And I Think We'll Explore It With Humans Sometime, But I Think It's Really Wise To Do All The Robotic Exploration Ahead Of Time And Learn As Much As Possible. Once We Have Learned As Much As Possible With The Robots, Then That's The Time To Send People, And Let Them Then Continue The Research That The Robots Have Started.

When Others Kid Me About Being Bald, I Simply Tell Them That The Way I Figure It, The Good Lord Only Gave Men So Many Hormones, And If Others Want To Waste Theirs On Growing Hair, That's Up To Them.