The Eagle has landed.
Neil ArmstrongI thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Neil ArmstrongI 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.
Elon MuskI think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
Stephen HawkingA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma GandhiI think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
Stephen HawkingSpace ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert FrostWhen 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.
Jeff BezosOur motto at Blue Origin is ‚Gradatim Ferociter‘: ‚Step by Step, Ferociously.‘
Jeff BezosTo succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIt is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.
Elon MuskBuilding a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
Mark ZuckerbergBeing a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.
Jerry SeinfeldIf humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Elon MuskThe revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
Elon MuskMost 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.
Robert KiyosakiHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil ArmstrongIf 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.
Stephen HawkingSo you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
BonoWhy should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
John F. KennedyThe fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.
Stephen HawkingThere have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Elon MuskIn order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.
Elon MuskI would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Elon MuskWe 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.
Jeff BezosThe Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘
Jeff BezosWe’re working on New Glenn, which is our orbital vehicle, but we have in our mind’s eye an even bigger vehicle called New Armstrong.
Jeff BezosIf we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
Elon MuskIt would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
Elon MuskI 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.
Jeff BezosHere men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil ArmstrongThe future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
Elon MuskI’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
Narendra ModiNASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Neil ArmstrongThat’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil ArmstrongI have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Stephen HawkingThe thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.
Mark ZuckerbergI think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.
Stephen HawkingAmerica has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. KennedyI’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Ray BradburyI 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.
George H. W. BushIt’s a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
Stephen HawkingSpace 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.
Richard BransonSpaceX 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.
Elon MuskFor 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.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIn military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
Robert KiyosakiLet’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LewisThe 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.
Jeff BezosOnce you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.
Jeff BezosIf your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.
Jeff BezosFor the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.
Jim MattisThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosMy measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.
Robert KiyosakiIt’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.
Elon MuskI think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.
Elon MuskI don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Stephen HawkingPeople will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.
Jeff BezosThe boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I’ll probably always be interested in this planet – it’s my favorite.
Carl SaganYou 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.
Elon MuskWe will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
George W. Bush