Tim Murphy – Bromberg & Sunstein
"I love Europe, but it's not drastically different from living here in the U.S. So I would much prefer to spend an hour on the moon. Standing on a heavenly body and looking ‘up' into the dark sky at my home planet should be a soul-altering experience. I also think – or hope – that we are at the very early dawn of an age of space colonization by the human race. Going to the moon now would sort of be like sailing on the ship with Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 rounding the southern tip of Africa. Europe was just beginning to come into contact with new worlds, and I think it would have been very exciting to have been part of that age of exploration at the very beginning.  (Also, you didn't say that my family could come along, and I'd rather not be separated from them for a whole year!)"

Sue Stenger – Burns & Levinson
"That's easy. The Europe option. I could visit a lot of friends and family and do a lot of touring and relaxing in a year on that budget. And based on my experience with roller coasters, the entire hour on the moon would be spent recovering from the rocket flight."

Mark Schreiber – Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
"Having a year in Europe would be nice with or without the stipend. I spend a lot of time already communicating, almost daily, with lawyers and clients there on data protection and other global compliance work (UK, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, etc.). So much so that it would be nice to sit down with them and drink local beer, ouzo, raki, or whatever. Better yet to be on one of the beaches doing that. Two years ago while on a beach on a Greek island, Kythera (I was speaking at an EU medical conference there), I was both happily watching my wife swim, and cell phone in hand going back and forth with Spanish counsel and US clients. She thought, probably rightly, that I had taken business demands too far, and indeed good retsina is better than an iPhone or an international Blackberry, I think. While the business pace and pressures are inexorable if not relentless, a time to pause, like MasterCard says, is really priceless."

Chinh Pham – Greenberg Traurig
"My choice would be for the more unique experience...going to the moon. Europe can be done at any time, albeit on my own dime. To be able to spend an hour on the moon is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and to throw in, you would get to experience outer space, weightlessness, and a view of our blue planet from a perspective that one can only dream. But really, to don an astronaut suit, get into a space shuttle and get flown to the moon, how many people would be able to say that...even for that one person you may encounter at a party that has to outdo everyone else on experience?"