Rick Tumlinson Quotes

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

The future of the human face is space exploration.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

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.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

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

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

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.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Space is where great scientific and commercial breakthroughs of the future will be made. Space is where we can achieve progress in making our country safer from ballistic missile attack. Space is also where medicines of the future will be made, and where some of our children may make their living.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

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.