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
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
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
Vets are different than other people. Frontline or support, they carry themselves differently than the rest of us. It is as if… — Rick Tumlinson 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will… — Rick Tumlinson 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
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
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
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
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 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
As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic,… — Rick Tumlinson Customer 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 Copy Share Image
There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of… — Rick Tumlinson Art Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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 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
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
