Before Quote by Rusty Schweickart

By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into…

— Barack Obama

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 purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or…

— Buzz Aldrin

We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It's going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times.

— Peggy Whitson

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict…

— Rusty Schweickart

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback…

— Buzz Aldrin

To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on…

— Carolyn Porco

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.

— Anne McClain

I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars,…

— Mae Jemison

Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated.…

— Rusty Schweickart

Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution…

— Alan Stern