Ahead Quote by Debra Fischer

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

— Jim Cantrell

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

— Trevor Paglen

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far…

— James Van Allen

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave…

— Fritz Zwicky

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

— Martin Rees

While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to…

— Seth Shostak

I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the…

— Debra Fischer

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

— Rusty Schweickart

Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have…

— Andy Weir

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you…

— Stephen Hawking

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

— Benjamin Franklin

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson