Jack Schmitt Quotes

It's very exciting that people could actually live on another planet.

We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.

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

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

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.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

I don't take Mars One seriously at all.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

I think that the future of the human race is to spread through the universe, and now is the time that we should be laying the foundations for that.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

Support space-resource and industrial infrastructure. Multibillion-dollar satellites or voyagers to Mars and beyond, if we don't live off the land, we will always only be visitors or wire stringers in territories we do not inhabit or control.

Exploration of closer planets will continue. Only after he exhausts all the resources here on earth will man go further ahead, which is when interplanetary travel may take place.

We endorse Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos' vision of 'millions of people living and working in space' - this is the heart and soul of the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement.

Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.

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

The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

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!

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.