Jeff Bezos Quotes

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

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.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

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

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.

We must become a space-faring nation.

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

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

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.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

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

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.

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.

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

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

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.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.