Elon Musk Quotes

We are going to Mars. My life will not be complete until an astronaut sets foot on the red dust of Mars.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

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

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

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.

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

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

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

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

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

Eventually we're going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.

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.

The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers.

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

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

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.

I actually want to go up into space.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

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