Access Quote by 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

Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.

— Burt Rutan

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost

— Burt Rutan

The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket's right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between $50, or…

— Leroy Chiao

Philosophically, most commercial launchers won't want the space industry to be tied to the government. It'll be like having a national airline. Prices will…

— Robert Bigelow

Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for…

— Alan G. Poindexter

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce…

— Ralph Merkle

In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or…

— Buzz Aldrin

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

— Burt Rutan

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get…

— Mark Kelly

It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources…

— Buzz Aldrin

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce…

— Ralph Merkle