Base Quote by Charles Duke

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.

— Buzz Aldrin

Yes, our concept of lunar base construction would be to assemble various modules and propulsion/power buses in L1, and that would constitute the base.

— Robert Bigelow

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which…

— Ray Bradbury

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

— Laurie Anderson

Ultimately, permanent lunar bases will have to be anchored to permanent commercial facilities. Without property rights there will be no justification for investment and…

— Robert Bigelow

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put…

— Michio Kaku

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

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

The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal…

— Mae Jemison

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon.…

— Bart Gordon

Exploiting the moon, sooner or later, is going to happen: It is the perfect platform from which to jump to the rest of the…

— Robert Bigelow

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

— Charles Duke