As opposed to the first 44 years of manned spaceflight, ... the difference is people are going to know that it is for them. |
At first, it will be real rich people, hundreds of them flying into suborbital space, ... But what will happen is you'll run out of real rich people real quickly. |
At first, it will be real rich people, hundreds of them flying into suborbital space. But what will happen is you'll run out of real rich people real quickly. |
Breakthroughs are what define our species. They come about because we are threatened. |
Dick made the point in 1986 that it would be good for someone to come out and beat the record, and he's delighted to give it up. |
fire in their eyes. |
I absolutely have to develop a space tourism system that is at least 100 times safer than anything that has flown man into space, and probably significantly more than that. |
I knew that the significance would be known and understood by everyone in 10 years. I'm extremely pleased to see it here this early. |
I really thought he'd start this program, do the conceptual work, and move on. But he's like a kid in a candy store. He's having more fun than he ever has. |
I strongly feel that, if we are successful, our program will mark the beginning of a renaissance for manned space flight. This might even be similar to that wonderful time period between 1908 and 1912 when the world went from a total of ten airplane pilots to hundreds of airplane types and thousands of pilots in 39 countries. |
I think within the next two to three years there will be tickets available for sub-orbital flights, |
I'm not at all embarrassed that we're opening up a new industry that will likely be a multi-billion dollar industry that's focused only on fun, ... long lasting and significant for our nation. |
If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough. |
In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries. |
In fact, it's more dangerous to fly in space in America now than it was earlier. It certainly is more expensive...more difficult, ... We've been relying on our taxpayer-funded research organization, Na Say, excuse me, NASA. |