Seth Shostak Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

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

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.

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.

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

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

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

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.

To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.

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

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

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.

We must become a space-faring nation.

We can put a satellite in orbit in 60 days.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …

The time will come when we permit more people in space.