Rick Tumlinson Quotes

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

Space is going to be commonplace.

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to 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.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

I am a spacer. It is what and who I am. It is my cause and my life. I am not an enthusiast, a fan, or supporter. It is what I exist to do here on Earth. And there are many of us; some, like Elon Musk, are very high profile.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I actually want to go up into space.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

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

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.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

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.