Apollo Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

— Peter Diamandis

We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand in space…

— Rick Tumlinson

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how…

— Eileen Collins

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they…

— Burt Rutan

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the…

— Jeff Bezos

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

— John M. Grunsfeld

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit.…

— K. Eric Drexler

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do…

— Burt Rutan

NASA is a big organization with a lot of needs that have to be met. So there are a lot of opportunities.

— Bruce Pittman

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

— Buzz Aldrin

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon…

— John F. Kennedy

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians…

— Bill Nye