Curiosity Is The Essence Of Human Existence.

We Will Certainly See Teachers, Journalists, Artists And Poets In Space. Whatever It Takes To The Be The Best Is What It Will Take To Get You Into Space.

After Apollo 17, America Stopped Looking Towards The Next Horizon. The United States Had Become A Space-faring Nation, But Threw It Away. We Have Sacrificed Space Exploration For Space Exploitation, Which Is Interesting But Scarcely Visionary.

I Know The Stars Are My Home. I Learned About Them, Needed Them For Survival In Terms Of Navigation. I Know Where I Am When I Look Up At The Sky. I Know Where I Am When I Look Up At The Moon; It's Not Just Some Abstract Romantic Idea, It's Something Very Real To Me. See, I've Expanded My Home.

We Went Into Darkness After Being In Daylight The Whole Time On The Way To The Moon. And Then We Went Into Darkness. And We're In The Shadow... Of The Moon.

Today, We Are On A Path Of Decay. We Are Seeing The Book Close On Five Decades Of Accomplishment As The Leader In Human Space Exploration.