Jeff Bezos Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

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

The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.

Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.

Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

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

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

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

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 we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

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.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.