Seth Shostak Quotes

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

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.

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.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

We must become a space-faring nation.

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

I would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing by creating a permanent and growing community there and moved on to Mars.

If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages, not bases, and to do it as rapidly as possible, as it needs to be an immediate challenge, not a distant dream. And if some want to go to Mars or mine asteroids, they need to be seen as part of a new frontier community.

The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

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.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.