Sunita Williams Quotes

We must become a space-faring nation.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

If I were part of Gaganyaan, I could have been sure that for the next few years, there would have been a second space mission and a third space mission.

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.

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

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

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

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

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

I am very inspired by the exploration of space via private means.

This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique perspective and a lot of time to reflect on what my next step should be on our continued journey to help further our capabilities in space and on Earth.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

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 would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

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.

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.

'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 was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.