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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we…

— Buzz Aldrin

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're…

— Alastair Reynolds

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

— Chuck Yeager

By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened…

— Burt Rutan

Companies that have the capability to settle space don't have the ambition and companies that have the ambition don't have the capability. Voyager was…

— Dylan Taylor

“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built by the…

— Carl Sagan

NASA is a shadow of the space agency it once was in the 1960s and 1970s.

— Robert Bigelow

“When the first humans set foot on Mars, the moment will be more significant in terms of technology, philosophy, history, and exploration than any…

— Stephen L. Petranek

“Consider this: in February of 1966, the Soviet Union soft-landed a space probe on the moon. Humanity has been launching programs ever since. NASA…

— A.G. Riddle

From the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost - for…

— Rick Tumlinson

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

— Mark Rober