The Best Way To Study Mars Is

To Move Forward, What's Required Is A Unified Space Agenda Based On Exploration, Science, Development, Commerce, And Security.

Anything We Can Do In The Near Future That Begins To Stimulate The Interest Of People - Seeing Somebody Down The Street Have An Opportunity To Go Into Space - Buoys Up The Whole Neighborhood.

I Know: If You're Looking Down At Earth, You're Looking Through An Atmosphere That Has A Bit Of Haze In Many Places And Not Just Occasional Clouds.

Unless We Are Able To Commit To A Permanent Growing Settlement [on Mars], Then I Don't Think Just Going There With Humans And Coming Back Is Worth Doing. The Expense Of Planning To Come Back Is Like The People Who Left Europe To Come To America And Then To Turn Around And Go Back To Europe, It Really Doesn't Make Any Sense At All.

We Need To Have People Up There Who Can Communicate What It Feels Like, Not Just Pilots And Engineers.