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

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.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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.

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

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

I read ‚The High Frontier‘ in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

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

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.

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

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

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 not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

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.

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

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

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.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

The 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.

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

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The Eagle has landed.

The 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.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

The 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?‘

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

I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

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.

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

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

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.

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

We will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.

I 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.

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

We 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.

The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.

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.

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

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

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

I’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.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.