Charles Duke Quotes

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

I think we know how to do Mars.

I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative.

We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It's going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.