The industry and the technology that you need to produce these materials we'll have on hand. It's based on last century's industrial engineering technology.

We want people to have a comparable standard of living to what they have on Earth. We think it would be a pretty nice place to live.

Getting to Mars, we feel, is the definitive step that will open up the solar system to humanity.

We hope they succeed because they'll help us succeed.

Anything that is high-mass and low tech, we're going to make there on Mars. Anything that is really high tech--like sensors, motors and complex mechanism--most of those things are relatively low mass and can be imported from Earth.

That was very important to us. We wanted to have this in there as a symbol of bringing life to [Mars].