Boyan Slat Quotes

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

Developing expendable rockets is always going to be painful and expensive. Throwing the whole rocket away on each attempt not only costs a lot, it also hampers figuring out just what went wrong because you don't get the rocket back for inspection.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

I love photography. I love rockets.

Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO's technology.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got older, I learned that space exploration was real. I wanted to get involved in that. I knew I wanted to be a scientist.

My brother is about energy. SpaceX is his passion, and I love being a part of that company. Energy is where he spends a lot of his time and thinking in terms of having an impact on the world.

I personally look forward to building the Orion. I believe that our country needs to pursue that technology.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

All the best to SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, and, yes, the Progress teams, who are all working on their own solutions to open the frontier along with Boeing and the rest of the fliers trying to fly, all of whom I know personally share the dream. This isn't their fault; they just want to make things fly.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?