Barriers Quote by Leroy Chiao

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

We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave…

— Michio Kaku

For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after…

— Burt Rutan

Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far…

— Neil Armstrong

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

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

The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be…

— Willy Ley

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space…

— Lincoln Davis

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

— Richard Branson