We are never satisfied with who we are or what we can do and that insatiable appetite for progress has served us well. It's what kept us from riding to work in a horse and buggy. It's what kept us from accepting an outhouse as an acceptable restroom. It drives Google, Amazon, and others to make commerce something you do from your home. It drives scientists to study the human genome and develop cures for diseases that used to kill millions of people.
The space program speaks to this desire for breakthroughs, and after 25 years of sending space shuttles into low Earth orbit to conduct experiments on lab rats and algae, it's time to get back to the business of building the future. I mean the real future — 50 and 100 years from now. It's time to think big.
Let's shoot for the moon — and stay this time.