Charles Stross Quotes

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

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.

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

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

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.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

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

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

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

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

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

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.

2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space.

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

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

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

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.