Government Quote by Helen Sharman

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever…

— Alan Stern

The unprecedented success of the Falcon 9's inaugural launch clearly demonstrates that it's possible to dramatically reduce the cost of human spaceflight operations.

— Robert Bigelow

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology…

— James Van Allen

I don't know that there's ever been a human spaceflight mission that did not have some anomaly.

— Jared Isaacman

SpaceX returned human spaceflight to the United States, and no one is close to doing that other than them.

— Jared Isaacman

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

— James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling…

— James Van Allen

The astronaut corps is a very small part of a very large team that enables human spaceflight.

— Anne McClain

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and…

— Helen Sharman

I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a…

— Helen Sharman

I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we…

— Walter Cunningham

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know,…

— Alan G. Poindexter