Joseph Palaia Quotations

We want people to have a comparable standard of living to what they have on Earth. We think it would be a pretty nice place to live.

Getting to Mars, we feel, is the definitive step that will open up the solar system to humanity.

We hope they succeed because they'll help us succeed.

We want to establish the Mars settlement envisioned by the Mars Foundation because we view it as the essential element that will help open up the rest of the solar system. But there is a wealth of opportunity beyond that that we are looking at.

Anything that is high-mass and low tech, we're going to make there on Mars. Anything that is really high tech--like sensors, motors and complex mechanism--most of those things are relatively low mass and can be imported from Earth.

The industry and the technology that you need to produce these materials we'll have on hand. It's based on last century's industrial engineering technology.