Accelerate Quote by Carl Sagan

Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable…

— Donald A. Wollheim

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave…

— Fritz Zwicky

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months…

— Elon Musk

“Right. Mars has about the same day as Earth, so a twenty-four-hour orbit does the trick here too. Then you just drop a cable…

— Terry Pratchett

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star…

— Debra Fischer

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

— Elon Musk

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

— Elon Musk

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster

— Saul Perlmutter

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we…

— Sakyong Mipham

When we get out to other planets in the solar system, we'll use the gravitational pull of each planet to help launch us to…

— Jack Swigert

It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging…

— Rusty Schweickart

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

— Buzz Aldrin