John Phillips Quotes

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.

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

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

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.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

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 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.

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

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

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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

'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.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

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.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

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

We must become a space-faring nation.

I think we know how to do Mars.

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