We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

It’s a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

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

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

I don’t know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that’s why that’s Blue Origin’s mission.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

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.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

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

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people – for a long time, anyway – are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

We’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It’s an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn’t sustainable.

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

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

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.

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.