Space Ambition Quotes

I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

What guy didn't want to be an astronaut growing up?

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

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

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

I always knew I'd go to space.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and goes for it. We can do it again, do it better, and do it for keeps this time. But we must decide: Will America, as a nation, support the settlement of space?

We are going to Mars. My life will not be complete until an astronaut sets foot on the red dust of Mars.

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.

In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.

Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.

To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as our backyard and have a suite of launch vehicles that can enable any ambition a person has regarding space. It's the same way you can go to buy a car: I want to go offroading, I'll buy this model. I'm a city driver, that's this model. I want to use less fuel, well, that's this model. They're not selling you one car, you have options. So when I think of space, I think of having options.

The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

The President wants to go to the moon. We hardly have enough money left in the treasury to go to Baltimore.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.