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
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
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
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
The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour,… — Rick Tumlinson Fads Copy Share Image
Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and… — Rick Tumlinson Crazy 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 Harvest 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
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
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 Lost 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I guess it's human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken… — Rick Tumlinson Factions 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 Chance 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
It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains,… — Rick Tumlinson Bitten 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
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
As we have seen in our own history, the injection of new ideas from other worlds transformed life for all, and with… — Rick Tumlinson Community Copy Share Image
If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages,… — Rick Tumlinson Community 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 Belief 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 Dangerous 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 Government 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
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
We often mistake the artificial chemical and psychological thrill of fake edges for the real. In fact we often seek them out… — Rick Tumlinson Adventure 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 America 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 Control 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 Apollo Copy Share Image
I want to capture and express that passion I see in life all around me to go wild, to push into anywhere… — Rick Tumlinson Go 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 Future Copy Share Image
After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle's boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term.… — Rick Tumlinson Boat Copy Share Image
