And countries around the world are entering into a healthy competition to build better and less expensive rockets. Who knows where all of this will lead. As we continue to explore and learn, we can expect new materials, advanced computers, currently unimaginable robotics and electronics, new forms of communications and information processing. We are getting ready to start a new year. We are also at the beginning of a new era.
Space now is less about prestige and more about peace and prosperity for the entire world.
Perhaps one day soon a team of Russian and American space travelers can explore the surface of Mars together. I'd volunteer in a minute. Look out, Story Musgrave.