Quotes by Robert Zubrin

“This thing has got to get underway.”

“They have an inferior lunar mission mode per se…but if they make the heavy-lift vehicle, they make everything we need them to make. Thats the most important thing the lunar program can give the Mars program.”

“the first rational plan in any sense that Ive seen from Nasa in decades.”

“What theyre really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later,”

“The testing of life support systems will certainly be useful, ... But on the psychological side, the real human factor is not whether people go crazy living in a tin: they dont. Its whether they can put up with the overwork once they arrive on Mars and start a rigorous programme of field exploration.”

“if someone comes in (as US president in 2009) and has no interest, he can just say, thank you for rationalising the space station and leave it at that.”

“This is incredibly exciting. What this means is that we have a chance to find ... extant life.”

“This is really groundbreaking research, ... There has been almost no research on artificial gravity in space and none concerning martian gravity.”

“This is the first time that anyone has done experiments on higher life in martian-like environment,”

“Will they undergo the same physiological deterioration we see at zero g [gravity], or will one-third g be enough to counteract that effect?”

The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.

Mars is key to humanitys future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

As I explain at some length in my book Energy Victory, during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.

Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.

The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.

Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an effect on climate, it is quite clear that they are raising atmospheric CO2 levels. As a result, they are having a strong and markedly positive effect on plant growth worldwide. There is no doubt about this.

It should be noted that the EPAs banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill.