Mars is essentially in the same orbit...[as the Earth]
Mars is somewhat the same distance
from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are
canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen.
If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
-- Vice President (and space program coordinator) Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
-- (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
