Jeff Bezos Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

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!

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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

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

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

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

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.

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

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

Mars is key to humanity's future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.

I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago.

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.

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

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

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?