Breakthrough Quote by Leroy Chiao

Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift…

— 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

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it…

— Pete Conrad

In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or…

— Buzz Aldrin

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

My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed…

— Steve Jurvetson

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space…

— Helen Sharman

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

Philosophically, most commercial launchers won't want the space industry to be tied to the government. It'll be like having a national airline. Prices will…

— Robert Bigelow

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

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars…

— Alan Stern

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