Again Quote by Edgar Mitchell

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a…

— Charles Duke

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

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

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

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

I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich…

— Ben Bova

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

Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth,

— Walter Smith

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

— Ray Bradbury

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

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