Asteroids Quote by Buzz Aldrin

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback…

— Buzz Aldrin

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

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

Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

— Anonymous

To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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

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

— Robert Bigelow

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

— Peter Diamandis

Will we go explore? Absolutely. That's what humans have been doing since we left the caves in Ethiopia. Why? Because this is part of…

— Julie Payette

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and…

— Paul Davies

We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and…

— Peggy Whitson