Julie Payette Quotes

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

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

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

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

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

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

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!

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

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

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.

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

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

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

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

We must become a space-faring nation.

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

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

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

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.

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.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.