Elon Musk Quotes

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 think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

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

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

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

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

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Space is going to be commonplace.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

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.

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.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

We must become a space-faring nation.

Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

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

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