Jim Cantrell Quotes

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.

We certainly would not be here, living and working on the International Space Station without the commitment and dedication of all the folks who worked the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs as well as the Russian Space Program.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

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

I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

If you have a Falcon Heavy, and you have a Dragon, and you have a Bigelow module, then all of a sudden, life gets interesting.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.