Exploration Quote by Alan Stern

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

— Peter Diamandis

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict…

— Rusty Schweickart

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very…

— Rusty Schweickart

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and…

— Paul Davies

Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future…

— Etienne Schneider

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an astronaut can…

— Carrie Nugent

Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated.…

— Rusty Schweickart

If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages, not bases,…

— Rick Tumlinson

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all…

— Buzz Aldrin