Close Quote by Jared Isaacman

SpaceX is not going to put us up into orbital spaceflight unprepared.

— Jared Isaacman

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

— Buzz Aldrin

The Americans are still the leaders in human space flight. I feel we have a danger here of kind of stagnating. We're kind of…

— Leroy Chiao

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have,…

— Elon Musk

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic…

— Elon Musk

In America, we have no means of getting to our own Space Station. We have to pay the Russians to put our people up…

— John Glenn

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting.

— Steve Jurvetson

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and…

— John F. Kennedy

Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

— Kathleen Rubins

Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space…

— Anne McClain

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience.…

— Scott Carpenter