It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries… — 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 would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
China, Russia and India are shooting for the Moon. United Arab Emirates says Mars. Other private citizens and companies are heading either… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages,… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I do not expect NASA to go out and build settlements and colonies. I do not expect them to give SpaceX all… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Support space-resource and industrial infrastructure. Multibillion-dollar satellites or voyagers to Mars and beyond, if we don't live off the land, we will… — 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
