The Weeknd Quotes

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

I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

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

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

'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.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

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

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

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

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

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

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

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.

Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.