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.
Jeff BezosThe 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 MuskSpaceX 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 MuskThe 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 ArmstrongFor NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan QuayleIf we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
Elon MuskThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosIt’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan QuayleThe 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 BezosIn 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. KennedyI 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 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 BezosI 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 MuskWe will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.
Jeff BezosWe’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.
Ray BradburyThe 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 BezosThere 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 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.
Jeff BezosHere men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil ArmstrongIf humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Elon MuskI’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Elon MuskIt’s a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
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 HawkingI think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
Elon MuskI’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
The WeekndThat’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil ArmstrongI 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.
Jeff BezosIt’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.
Stephen HawkingAmerica has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. KennedyI 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 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 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 BezosYou 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 MuskI have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Stephen HawkingLet’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LewisThe fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.
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 BezosYou could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
Elon MuskNASA 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 ArmstrongIt’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 MuskRockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.
Elon MuskMillions 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 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 MuskI think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
Stephen HawkingThe 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. JohnsonI think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.
Stephen HawkingI 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.
Jeff BezosWe 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. BushI 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 BezosHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil ArmstrongPerhaps one day I will go into space.
Stephen HawkingIn September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn – the climax of a ‚day of awe,‘ as the press described it.
Noam ChomskySpace 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 AdamsI would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Elon MuskThe pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
Elon MuskIt’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
Ray BradburySpace 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 BransonOnce 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 BezosPeople will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.
Jeff Bezos