"Space is no longer going to be a destination that we visit briefly. We're going to learn to live

"Space is no longer going to be a destination that we visit briefly. We're going to learn to live off the land like the pioneers did."
Scott Horowitz
NASA associate administrator, after Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded the multibillion-dollar contract to build NASA's manned lunar spaceship.
"All those who were there are different people now. We lack words and emotions, there is only emptiness inside us."
Batraz Misikov
A 14-year-old who was held hostage at the Beslan school in Russia, along with more than 1,100 fellow students, teachers and parents on Sept. 1, 2004.