I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you c...

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the n...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are...

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

I've never bought a sports car.

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunda...

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately...

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their...

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.