John M. Grunsfeld Quotes

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

We must become a space-faring nation.

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

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

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …

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

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.

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!

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

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

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

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

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

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.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

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.

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

'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.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

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

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