Daniel Goldin Quotes

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

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

I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.

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

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

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

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It's going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times.

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 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.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

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

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.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

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 think we know how to do Mars.

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.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.