Air Quote by Ralph Merkle

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

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.…

— Hermann E. Ott

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

We're going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its…

— Jensen Huang

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of…

— Gerard Arpey

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a…

— Elon Musk

There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll come a…

— Dale Jamieson

The unprecedented success of the Falcon 9's inaugural launch clearly demonstrates that it's possible to dramatically reduce the cost of human spaceflight operations.

— Robert Bigelow

As we battle the high price of fuel, cost efficiency will continue to be a top priority not only for airlines but for every…

— Giovanni Bisignani

As you begin to create more destinations, that will naturally create a stronger economic pipeline for space. And just as we have been the…

— Dennis Muilenburg

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

— Chesley Sullenberger