Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
By opening space, for the first time in our history, rather than inexorably extracting the blood of life from this oh-so-precious sphere… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Life is passion, celebration in the face of chaos, light in the face of darkness, hope in the face of despair, and… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Our society's youth will grow up knowing that tomorrow can be better, that there are alternatives for the future, that there are… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
This is what the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) represents. Experimental, explorational science. Learning about Mars as a new world. Discovering new things… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I am a spacer. It is what and who I am. It is my cause and my life. I am not an… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Like most Americans, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am pro-future, pro-hope, and pro-abundance. I am pro-frontier and will… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
As we have seen in our own history, the injection of new ideas from other worlds transformed life for all, and with… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I want to capture and express that passion I see in life all around me to go wild, to push into anywhere… — 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
