Mars quotes

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on… So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.