Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won't allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the public and sidelined governments decry and block the perceived cosmic land grab. Yet the private folks aren't waiting. — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
The first credible humans-to-Mars plans are starting to weave together in public-private partnerships. In fact, I can say with some authority that this will also be the case in terms of the Moon and asteroids as well. — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Whether your father, husband, son, or brother has been on the front lines, driving a computer or programming a tank, wielding a gun or… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the most expensive selfie in history. As the apex of an 8-year, $130 billion… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
By reigniting the exploration role of our government Lewises and Clarks within and enabled by the infrastructure and economic drive of commercial space and… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Vets are different than other people. Frontline or support, they carry themselves differently than the rest of us. It is as if they entered… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Government paved the on-ramp to space. Now, the vehicles taking us up to the space highway are being built by citizens, leveraging off government-catalyzed… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from low Earth… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
