Steve Jurvetson Quotes

If space is not profitable for business, there will be very few people in space.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

The space program is a peaceful project. The next door is opening. We have to go farther into space. But, before that, we need to develop far more improved nutrition and more advanced spacecraft.

Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

Luxembourg's aims is to be in the top 10 space-faring nations in the world.

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

We must become a space-faring nation.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

NSS has strongly supported competition in both the NASA Commercial Re-supply Services program and the Commercial Crew program.

There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries in space, and the establishment of the first human communities on Mars. We could have - we can - do it anytime we actually decide that it is our goal, organize ourselves to make it happen, and Just Do It.

NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in West Texas and on the Gulf Coast, in California and on the Virginia coast, and rising from the ashes of the old space program in Florida and in small shops and university labs in a hundred places in between.