We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars. — Rick Tumlinson Astronomy Copy Share Image
2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space. — Rick Tumlinson Beginning 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 Education Copy Share Image
There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful. — Rick Tumlinson Beautiful Copy Share Image
Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government. — Rick Tumlinson Economic system Copy Share Image
Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream. — Rick Tumlinson Astronomy 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 Community 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 Control 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… — Rick Tumlinson Moon Copy Share Image
Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything… — Rick Tumlinson Alive Copy Share Image
When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a… — Rick Tumlinson Cold 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 Beyond 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… — Rick Tumlinson Brother 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… — Rick Tumlinson Exploration Copy Share Image
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our… — Rick Tumlinson Better Copy Share Image
NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in… — Rick Tumlinson California 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 Age Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic,… — Rick Tumlinson I am Copy Share Image
From the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost… — Rick Tumlinson Lost 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 History Copy Share Image
We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail… — Rick Tumlinson Government Copy Share Image
There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of… — Rick Tumlinson Art 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 Either Copy Share Image
Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to… — Rick Tumlinson Creation 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… — Rick Tumlinson Failure 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… — Rick Tumlinson Different people 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 Adapt 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 Colors Copy Share Image
We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day… — Rick Tumlinson Culture Copy Share Image
We have a space agency desperately in need of purpose, whose employees and capabilities have been wasted for decades on make-work projects… — Rick Tumlinson High Copy Share Image
NewSpace is everything we want in this nation: energy, entrepreneurship, and excitement that spurs education, innovation, and an enlightened approach to the… — Rick Tumlinson Education 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 Environment Copy Share Image
When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will… — Rick Tumlinson Bad Copy Share Image
It is time to take a stand for the future. Not in just words but actions. It is time to step up… — Rick Tumlinson Dreams 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 Earth 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… — Rick Tumlinson Earth 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 Beginning Copy Share Image
The tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not… — Rick Tumlinson Action 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… — Rick Tumlinson Failure Copy Share Image
After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle's boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term.… — Rick Tumlinson Boat Copy Share Image
