Vladimir Putin Quotes

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.

We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

We can put a satellite in orbit in 60 days.

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

Boeing, LockMart, and hundreds of other companies, large and small, work in the space business, and they also create new techniques and technology; but they'd be nowhere if NASA and the Department of Defense hadn't shown the way by funding the first big rockets and satellites.

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

In 1985, the government decided to launch the first satellite. We had huge discussions then that nobody would need that kind of satellite or that it could fall from the sky.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

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.

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

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

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

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

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'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

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.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

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.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.