I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.