Dana Rohrabacher Quotes

If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.

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.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

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

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.

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

NSS has strongly supported competition in both the NASA Commercial Re-supply Services program and the Commercial Crew program.

SpaceX has reopened the cosmos, and the space race is back on, only this time it is in the private sector.

Government paved the on-ramp to space. Now, the vehicles taking us up to the space highway are being built by citizens, leveraging off government-catalyzed technologies and needs.

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.

Luxembourg's aims is to be in the top 10 space-faring nations in the world.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.

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.

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

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

We must become a space-faring nation.

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

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.