Base Quote by Charles Duke

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one…

— Edgar Mitchell

Someday in the future, 50, a hundred years from now, you're going to have a lunar base, you're going to probably have some sort…

— Jared Isaacman

Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon,…

— Buzz Aldrin

You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.

— Charles Duke

We would like to be part of the process of establishing a lunar station and other kinds of space outposts - maybe someday helping…

— Robert Bigelow

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

Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people…

— Buzz Aldrin

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to…

— Buzz Aldrin

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with…

— Jim Lovell

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to…

— John Phillips

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from…

— Wally Schirra

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo…

— Bill Nye