It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains, my brother was bitten by a rattlesnake. As they raced back to the base, my dad sucked out… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share
The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share
I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in space long… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share
