History Quote by Rick Tumlinson

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

— Rick Tumlinson

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been…

— Nick Bostrom

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all…

— Buzz Aldrin

The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human…

— Robert Zubrin

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel…

— John M. Grunsfeld

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red…

— John Noble Wilford

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world…

— Buzz Aldrin

We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and…

— Peggy Whitson

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the…

— Carl Sagan

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

— Mary Roach

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually…

— Ellen Ochoa

We're being very careful that we don't send a spacecraft to Mars with the intention of detecting Martian life - and find out that…

— John M. Grunsfeld