Even With Only Two People On Board,

My Dad Served In Two Wars Has Been Flying Airplanes For 60 Years Now. He Was Certainly Quite An Inspiration.

If I Wasn't Doing This Kind Of Exploration, I'd Like To Be Doing Some Other Kind Of Exploration. It Might Be More Risky, Or Less Risky, But, In The Business Of Exploration, Risk Is Part Of The Territory.

We're Going To Be Focusing Our Science On Things That Will Take Us Farther And Longer Into Space. For Many Of Those Experiments, The Crew Members Are Human Guinea Pigs, Which Is Fine; That's Part Of My Job. I Don't Mind Being A Human Guinea Pig.

A Civilization That Only Looks Inward Will Stagnate. We Have To Keep Looking Outward; We Have To Keep Finding New Avenues For Human Endeavor And Human Expression.

Small Samples In The Centrifuge Will Spin At Varying Rates To Create Synthetic Gravity, Like The Gravity Of Mars Or The Gravity Of The Moon, And Measure How The Specimens Respond Within The Centrifuge.