I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.
Elon MuskIt’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
Ray BradburyHere men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil ArmstrongIn 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 MuskLet’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LewisI’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 BradburyThe boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I’ll probably always be interested in this planet – it’s my favorite.
Carl SaganI think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.
Stephen HawkingWe will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.
Jeff BezosScience fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
Margaret AtwoodIt’s a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
Stephen HawkingYou 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 MuskIf 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 MuskWe’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.
Ray BradburyThere 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 MuskThe 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 MuskRockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.
Elon MuskWe’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 BezosWe 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 first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
Ray BradburyWhen 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 BezosSpace 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.
Douglas AdamsWe’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.
Jeff BezosI don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Stephen HawkingIf 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 HawkingIf humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Elon MuskThe pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
Elon MuskI thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Neil ArmstrongThe fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.
Stephen HawkingI’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Elon MuskFor NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan QuayleThe 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 BezosNASA 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 ArmstrongI would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Elon MuskOnce 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 BezosMillions 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.
Jeff BezosThe Eagle has landed.
Neil ArmstrongThe 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 MuskI 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 MuskIt is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.
Elon MuskRonald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Christopher HitchensIt’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.
Neil ArmstrongYou 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.
Elon MuskWe’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.
Ray BradburyI think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
Stephen HawkingTwo 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.
Jeff BezosScience fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.
Margaret AtwoodThe 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.
Neil ArmstrongThat’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil ArmstrongIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam ChomskyI 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 BezosSpace 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 BransonIn 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.
John F. KennedyWe 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.
Richard BransonLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
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. BushThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosI 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 MuskThe 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe 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 Bezos