Mars Quotes - page 9

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime. (Buzz Aldrin)
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world. View quote
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Mars is there, waiting to be reached. View quote
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on. View quote
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Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems. View quote
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The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface. View quote
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Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability. View quote
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically. View quote
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Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars. View quote
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I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter. View quote
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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars. (Buzz Aldrin)
You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles. View quote
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The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive. View quote
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Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other. View quote
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Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future. View quote
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I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time. View quote
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We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there. View quote
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America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond. View quote
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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water. View quote
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species. View quote
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings. (Buzz Aldrin)
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential. View quote
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I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring. View quote
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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 into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world. View quote
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The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic. View quote
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