[af_vet_rr]

Today, people die every year while driving racecars or climbing mountains.

We seem to be hardwired for activities that involve risks beyond those of everyday necessity. Add this to our innate curiosity, and it's no longer a question of whether we will go to Mars, but of who will be the first to try.

Unfortunately, human beings are perhaps the worst space explorers imaginable: delicate and high-maintenance.

Unfortunately the United States has turned into a nation of settlers, when we were once a nation of pioneers.

We were at our best when we were a nation of pioneers. God didn't give us the tools to venture out into space, only to see us retreat to low earth orbit.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Unfortunately the nation of America lost sight of the simple fact we’re a nation.

Not a world.

AMERICA FIRST.