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

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

We want to help Odessa succeed. Our intent is to educate people, not so they can speak for us, but so they can speak for themselves.

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.

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.