Asteroids Quote by Buzz Aldrin

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all…

— Buzz Aldrin

Exploiting Mars, sooner or later, is going to happen. These are gigantic opportunities for the human race.

— Robert Bigelow

Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our…

— Seth Shostak

Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future…

— Etienne Schneider

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the…

— Paul Davies

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

— Anonymous

Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very…

— Rusty Schweickart

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium…

— Jim Lovell

Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that we're in…

— Edgar Mitchell

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more…

— Jim Lovell

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on…

— Carolyn Porco

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 this will…

— Rick Tumlinson