I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.

That training really helped us on the second time around, ... It was one of those acts of fate.

We strongly suspect the Tigers because he had threats from the LTTE.

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'