Trevor Paglen Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

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.

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.

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'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

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

Space exploration has taken a tremendous technological leap. India as a developing nation has been recognized globally for how it has economized its missions, which have been comparatively low-cost compared with other countries.

If you have a Falcon Heavy, and you have a Dragon, and you have a Bigelow module, then all of a sudden, life gets interesting.

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

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.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

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.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.

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