In First And the United States will be the first nation to plant our beautiful American flag on planet Mars. – Donald Trump To student group in Phoenix, June 2020.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. – Herbert V. Prochnow
The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the ground can’t participate minute by minute in Mars surface activities. – Henry Spencer
I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries. – Jim Lovell
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. – Buzz Aldrin
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. – Buzz Aldrin
I’m sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars. – Buzz Aldrin
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water. – Buzz Aldrin
The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit – all of which are sky-high. – Brad Sherman
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. – Arne Jacobsen
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. – Boris Johnson
When we get there, if we don’t find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we’ll bring it there, whether it’s germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is. – Buzz Aldrin
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places. – Barbara Block
In Mars, we’ve been given a wonderful set of moons… where we can send continuous numbers of people. – Buzz Aldrin
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. – Buzz Aldrin
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars. – Christopher Hitchens
I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close. – Arto Lindsay
Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans. – Buzz Aldrin
