A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
For every winner, there’s a loser. And that person didn’t really need to lose. They just didn’t understand the game plan.
I’m convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we’re eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don’t come back? What if they stay there?
NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
The universe is the way it is. It’s not going to be changed by supplications.
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn’t do that again.
It’s not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I’m just a little skeptical that that’s going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It’s paralyzing.
There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn’t have spread across the Earth the way we have. There’s a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.
Let’s not spend resources that we don’t need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let’s not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.
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.
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.
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that’s 25 times the energy.
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
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.