When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.
I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.
One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.
Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.
Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
