Jim Lovell Quotes

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.

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

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

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

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.

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.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

We must become a space-faring nation.

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

I don't like being alone, so I want to share these experiences and things with as many people as possible, so that is why I choose to go to the Moon with artists!

The space program is a peaceful project. The next door is opening. We have to go farther into space. But, before that, we need to develop far more improved nutrition and more advanced spacecraft.

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

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

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

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.

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.