Quotes from Edgar Mitchell

I'd like to discover Truth - when I can latch on to something that I think is true.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.