We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail… — Rick Tumlinson Government 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 Cry 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
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
There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful. — Rick Tumlinson Beautiful 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 History Copy Share Image
It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains,… — Rick Tumlinson Brother 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
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
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our… — Rick Tumlinson Better Copy Share Image
We require, as a species, the difference between what is safe and unsafe to define ourselves. Be it in darkness or in… — Rick Tumlinson Comparison 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 Creation 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 Legacy 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
2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space. — Rick Tumlinson Beginning Copy Share Image
Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream. — Rick Tumlinson Astronomy Copy Share Image
The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our… — Rick Tumlinson Engineering 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
As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic,… — Rick Tumlinson I am 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
Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places -… — Rick Tumlinson Big 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
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
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
