Rick Tumlinson

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

— Rick Tumlinson

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid…

— Rick Tumlinson

2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space.

— Rick Tumlinson

Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream.

— Rick Tumlinson

There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful.

— Rick Tumlinson

Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.

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Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to…

— Rick Tumlinson

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and…

— Rick Tumlinson

Vets are different than other people. Frontline or support, they carry themselves differently than the rest of us. It is as if…

— Rick Tumlinson

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

I would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing…

— Rick Tumlinson

By reigniting the exploration role of our government Lewises and Clarks within and enabled by the infrastructure and economic drive of commercial…

— Rick Tumlinson

Whether your father, husband, son, or brother has been on the front lines, driving a computer or programming a tank, wielding a…

— Rick Tumlinson

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

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

This is what the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) represents. Experimental, explorational science. Learning about Mars as a new world. Discovering new things…

— Rick Tumlinson

We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail…

— Rick Tumlinson

There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of…

— Rick Tumlinson

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our…

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We are as old as we feel. And while I never feel my calendar age, I often feel my Leaper age. And…

— Rick Tumlinson

NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in…

— Rick Tumlinson

As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic,…

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Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything…

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Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you…

— Rick Tumlinson

When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a…

— Rick Tumlinson

China, Russia and India are shooting for the Moon. United Arab Emirates says Mars. Other private citizens and companies are heading either…

— Rick Tumlinson

The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health,…

— Rick Tumlinson

NewSpace is everything we want in this nation: energy, entrepreneurship, and excitement that spurs education, innovation, and an enlightened approach to the…

— Rick Tumlinson

When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will…

— Rick Tumlinson

It is time to take a stand for the future. Not in just words but actions. It is time to step up…

— Rick Tumlinson

I am a spacer. It is what and who I am. It is my cause and my life. I am not an…

— Rick Tumlinson

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

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

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

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

I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in…

— Rick Tumlinson

To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as…

— Rick Tumlinson

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and…

— Rick Tumlinson

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our…

— Rick Tumlinson

The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour,…

— Rick Tumlinson