American west Quote by Franklin Chang Diaz

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or…

— Charles Stross

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near…

— Wilson Greatbatch

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

— Leroy Chiao

The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the…

— Kevin A. Ford

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do…

— Heidi Hammel

Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to…

— Anonymous

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically…

— Randy Forbes

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

— Edgar Mitchell

It is time to kickstart a new U.S. space transportation industry and time to spread that industry into space itself, leveraging our space station…

— Rick Tumlinson

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

— Robert A. Heinlein