To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as… — Rick Tumlinson Harvest 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
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
On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the most expensive selfie in history. As the apex of an 8-year,… — Rick Tumlinson Better 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
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
Vets are different than other people. Frontline or support, they carry themselves differently than the rest of us. It is as if… — Rick Tumlinson Person 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 Best 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 Being 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… — Rick Tumlinson Complacency 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
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
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
The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour,… — Rick Tumlinson Hero 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 Focus 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
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 Failure Copy Share Image
We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars. — Rick Tumlinson Astronomy 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
There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries… — Rick Tumlinson Make it happen 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 First time Copy Share Image
Life is passion, celebration in the face of chaos, light in the face of darkness, hope in the face of despair, and… — Rick Tumlinson Chaos 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 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
We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand… — Rick Tumlinson Big idea Copy Share Image
