Business Quote by Peter Diamandis

I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew then that…

— Leroy Chiao

We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the micro space innovations currently underway and bring…

— Jim Cantrell

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

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule,…

— Allison Schroeder

“Founded in June 2002, Space Exploration Technologies came to life in humble settings.”

— Ashlee Vance

After earning an M.B.A. from Stanford and working for a short time in Chicago at McKinsey & Co., I moved back home in 1983…

— Doug Burgum

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German…

— Jimmy Wales

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent…

— Geoffrey Rush

My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to…

— Paul Allen

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human…

— Michael J. Massimino

A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space…

— Nancy Roman