Elon Musk Quotes

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

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

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

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

I love photography. I love rockets.

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

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.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

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.

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?

I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

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

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

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

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

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

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

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

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.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

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