Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost. — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We often mistake the artificial chemical and psychological thrill of fake edges for the real. In fact we often seek them out as a substitute for the reality of change, growth and exploration. Our minds and bodies help us in… — 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
