Cost Quote by Burt Rutan

I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude…

— Burt Rutan

In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If…

— Burt Rutan

“For a convenient overview of the Manhigh, Excelsior, and Strato-Lab projects, see "Report on Manned Space Flight," session VII of Proceedings of the Second…

— Loyd S. Swenson Jr

I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering…

— Wernher von Braun

There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose. We do…

— Vikram Sarabhai

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is…

— Nathan Myhrvold

As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all…

— Charles Krauthammer

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

— Vladimir Putin

“With almost no internal opposition, both the Senate and the House of Representatives responded to Kennedy’s challenge by increasing funds for the agency that…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant…

— Ronald Reagan

The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being…

— John Noble Wilford