“He looks at a problem and his reaction isn’t Oh, that’s a shame. His reaction is to go fix it. He’s extraordinary,” she said. “I’ve never understood his detractors, the cynics who say he’s just in it for the government money. It’s such bullshit. He started with Mars Oasis. He wanted to do Mars Oasis because he wanted people to see that life on Mars was doable, and we needed to go there.”