Establishing research stations on the moon will give us the experience and capabilities to extend to Mars and beyond.

Why this is important is because these resources can make future human occupation of the moon much more cost effective. If we can live off the land and use the resources that are available, then it becomes much less expensive.

These resources can make (a) future human return to the moon and future human occupation of the moon much more cost-effective.

We have tried to give the highest priority to the research that we need to get to the moon and Mars and beyond. Is the science scaled back? You bet it is. But is it no science at all? No, we're still trying to utilize this station all we can up there.

Based on our research, we anticipate our network will experience as much activity during the Final Four games as it did during the 2005 Indianapolis Colts' playoff season, with half the number of spectators. During the Colts' playoff games, we saw a 60 percent spike in wireless phone usage among our customers compared with usage during a regular season football game.

This research shows that even after the collisions happened, the earth had a profound effect on the moon.