The High Frontier of Human Space Exploration

For many millennia mankind has dreamt about the Moon and worlds beyond.

With the President’s renewed commitment to a return to the Moon, this time to stay, the people of the United States are setting out – once more – to open and explore the frontiers of space for all mankind - bearing the flag of Freedom and Enterprise.

In setting out on this journey, we are following in the steps of the first English settlers when they landed on the shores of Virginia in 1607 and founded Jamestown. We also build on the principles on which these United States and all free societies are founded: the Declaration of Rights of Virginia in 1775, affirming the Pursuit of Property and the foundation of the U.S. Declaration of Independence less than a year later in 1776.

We follow in the steps of all the astronauts who set out in space exploration and died in pursuit thereof. It is their memory which this renewed journey shall honor and commemorate.

Once we have learned how to walk and work on the Moon, this journey shall continue -- to Mars, throughout the solar system and ultimately...to the stars.