That Was A Real Fireball.

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.

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.

As Far As Actually Setting Up Colonies Of People Who Would Live Their Whole Lives In Space, I Think We're A Long Ways From Doing That Yet, And I Think We Have Many, Many Decades Before We Could Be Able To Even Consider Something Like That.

I Hate To Think That We May Be Out There Seven To Ten Years Out And Dependent On The Russians For Our Journey Into Space.

Because Now, You Know, It's Going To Be A Number Of Years Yet Before We Have Our Own New Boosters And New Spacecraft To Go To Our Own International Space Station And Proceed With All The Research That We Spent $100 Billion Putting Up There To Give Us That Research Capability For The Future For People Right Here On Earth.