Rick Tumlinson Quotes

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

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!

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

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

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

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

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

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

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of 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.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

We must become a space-faring nation.

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.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …