Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places -… — Rick Tumlinson 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 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
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
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
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 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
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 exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient… — Rick Tumlinson 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 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
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
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 Billionaires 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 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 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
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
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
I want to capture and express that passion I see in life all around me to go wild, to push into anywhere… — Rick Tumlinson 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 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 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
Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure -… — Rick Tumlinson 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
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
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
There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries… — Rick Tumlinson 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
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 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
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
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
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
Our greatest theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, recently declared that humans have no more than a hundred years to get off this planet… — Rick Tumlinson 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 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 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
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
It was the summer of 1968 or so, and Dad and my little brother were out camping. While up in the mountains,… — Rick Tumlinson 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
