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
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
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 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
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
When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a… — Rick Tumlinson 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 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 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
The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient… — Rick Tumlinson 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 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
NewSpace companies are staffed by young, new leaders who worship the giants who got us here, such as the recently passed Neil… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one… — 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
Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it's an obvious lie to… — 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
Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls 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… — 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… — 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… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour,… — 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… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places -… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
It is time to kickstart a new U.S. space transportation industry and time to spread that industry into space itself, leveraging our… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
We need to open the frontier between the Earth and Moon to large-scale human activities, we need to establish human outposts and… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
All the best to SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, and, yes, the Progress teams, who are all working on their own solutions to open… — 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
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
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 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 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
It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of… — 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
The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on… — 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
