Zero G And I Feel Fine.

The Most Important Thing We Can Do Is Inspire Young Minds And To Advance The Kind Of Science, Math And Technology Education That Will Help Youngsters Take Us To The Next Phase Of Space Travel.

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.

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.

By Its Very Definition, Civic Responsibility Means Taking A Healthy Role In The Life Of One's Community. That Means That Classroom Lessons Should Be Complemented By Work Outside The Classroom. Service-learning Does Just That, Tying Community Service To Academic Learning.

On K-12 Education America Has Gone Down, Down, Down Compared To The Other Nations. It Doesn't Mean That We Have Gotten Dumber. It Just Means That We Have Not Advanced As Fast In Those Areas As Other Nations Have Done, And We're Way Down Right Now.