Sally Ride Quotes

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

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

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

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

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

I think if Elon Musk asked me to go to Mars as a musician, to sing for people, I think I might just do that. A return ticket would be a nice incentive, though.

I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

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

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did.

Because Blue Peter can get you access to places - if you go to somewhere like Nasa, you don't just see what most people see, you can get a lot of behind the scenes access. You can talk to an astronaut.

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.