We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars. — Rick Tumlinson Astronomy Copy Share Image
There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful. — Rick Tumlinson Beautiful Copy Share Image
Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government. — Rick Tumlinson Economic system Copy Share Image
Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream. — Rick Tumlinson Astronomy Copy Share Image
2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space. — Rick Tumlinson Beginning Copy Share Image
We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid… — Rick Tumlinson Education 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 Adapt Copy Share Image
We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day… — Rick Tumlinson Culture 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 High Copy Share Image
Our society's youth will grow up knowing that tomorrow can be better, that there are alternatives for the future, that there are… — Rick Tumlinson Colors Copy Share Image
NewSpace is everything we want in this nation: energy, entrepreneurship, and excitement that spurs education, innovation, and an enlightened approach to the… — Rick Tumlinson Education 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 Environment 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 Earth Copy Share Image
It is time to take a stand for the future. Not in just words but actions. It is time to step up… — Rick Tumlinson Dreams Copy Share Image
We have an industrial base - one that, if made to take orders rather than being allowed in the vacuum of leadership… — Rick Tumlinson Create 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 Earth 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 Best 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
Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won't allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the… — Rick Tumlinson Glory Copy Share Image
Robotics, manufacturing, medicine, farming, energy - all will be pushed to and beyond their limits and, by so doing, will advance at… — Rick Tumlinson Energy 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
NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in… — Rick Tumlinson California 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 Affirmation 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
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 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 Asteroids 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
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
I would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing… — Rick Tumlinson Community 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 Either 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 Canvas 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 Different people 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
I am a Leaper: a person who - thanks to some mathematical errors tied to the cosmic interactions of Earth and Sun… — Rick Tumlinson Bad Copy Share Image
Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure -… — Rick Tumlinson Building 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
Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by… — Rick Tumlinson Left behind 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
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
From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, presidents have rhetorically opened the door to the frontier for us, and… — Rick Tumlinson Door Copy Share Image
