We Leave As We Came, And, God

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.

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.

If The Guidance Failed Or Started To Stray Or Went Somewhere We Didn't Like Or The Ground Didn't Like, I Could Flip A Switch, And I Could Control Seven, Over Seven And A Half Million Pounds Of Thrust With This Handle And Fly The Thing To The Moon Myself.

Chemical Propulsion Is Obsolete To Go Anywhere Other Than The Moon. Three Days - That's Acceptable. But For Mars, We Need Propulsion Technologies To Get Us There In, Say, 60 Days - Then Spend Whatever Length Of Time We Want To Spend And Return When We Want To Come Home.