But the problem with the program today is that it is not exciting. It doesn't stimulate the imagination. My way of thinking is that we are exploiting space, we're going where we have been before. It's going to take some vision and a commitment to go back to the Moon, or on to Mars, before we really get people everywhere excited once again. Absolutely, I do.
Water is the gift of life.
And anytime we find something unusual, something unanticipated, we begin once again to ask questions. And water on the Moon opens up a whole raft of new questions. Certainly, if there is water on the Moon, there is water elsewhere, which says a lot about our survivability in space. I'm not sure what the stimulus will be, what the reasons will be, perhaps our inherent curiousity will be enough. But I can guarantee it will happen.