Krafft Arnold Ehricke Quotes

Over the last eight years, the Obama-Clinton administration has undermined our space program tremendously. That will change. So many good things come out of it, including great jobs. And it will change very quickly under a Trump administration and it will change before it is too late.

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.

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

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

Elon just presented a plan for settling the solar system in this century that is realistic and affordable. In my paper, 'A Pathway to a Thriving Commercial Space Economy' at IAC, I also laid out a path forward to a growing economy in space that produces new opportunities for all.

Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there.

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

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

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

We are not building the space station for science any more than we went to the moon for science, but we got a hell of a lot of good science out of it.

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.

This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique perspective and a lot of time to reflect on what my next step should be on our continued journey to help further our capabilities in space and on Earth.

People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator...

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.