Built Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won't allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the public and…

— Rick Tumlinson

The first credible humans-to-Mars plans are starting to weave together in public-private partnerships. In fact, I can say with some authority that this will…

— Rick Tumlinson

We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism…

— Daniel Goldin

I do not expect NASA to go out and build settlements and colonies. I do not expect them to give SpaceX all the money…

— Rick Tumlinson

I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything…

— Michio Kaku

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

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

— Julie Payette

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would…

— Felix Baumgartner

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

— Robert Bigelow

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism…

— Hugo Chavez

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

— Elon Musk