Rick Tumlinson : (4)

" It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars. " - Rick Tumlinson

" Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument. " - Rick Tumlinson

" Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places – not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above. " - Rick Tumlinson

" As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic, sound-bite-spewing sewage rats that surround them can stuff it. They are the wrong stuff, and their self-glorification is an obscenity. No matter what they say of themselves, they are not that important. " - Rick Tumlinson