Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

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.

I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

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.

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.

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.