Edgar Mitchell Quotes

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Humanity is not forever chained to this planet.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come...I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. As we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is a humongous task for any one nation to carry out.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early pioneers, there will be no nearby friendly merchants or supportive governments to replace that broken tool.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.