For those people who thought this was something for the next generation... commercial spaceflight really is right on the horizon.
Quotes about spaceflight (16 Quotes)
At this point, they're ready for flight assignment. But the reality is they could spend years in technical assignments learning the ins and outs of spaceflight. Then there's another year of training specifically for that flight.
It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable, ... ...any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human driven exploration spaceflight in the U.S. So this underscores the need to realize that NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision.
Tito's ability to enjoy the training and plan for his spaceflight was eclipsed by wondering whether or not he was able to go,
As opposed to the first 44 years of manned spaceflight, ... the difference is people are going to know that it is for them.
A new hero is created when a spaceflight is launched, ... I want to create more private-space-travel heroes in China.
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
In times past, we couldn't manufacture even a car or ship. Today an independent, self-sufficient, constantly strengthening China has, like a miracle, become one of a handful of countries able to make the dream of spaceflight a reality.
You have raised a tide that will bring billions of dollars into the industry and fund other teams to compete, ... We will begin a new era of spaceflight.
Clearly there is room for a number of locations for suborbital personal spaceflight. If all goes well, this will be a rising tide that lifts many spaceports, and for the first time enables a true commercial market,
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable,
There is widespread agreement, even among those otherwise critical of the station science, that it is an essential platform for research related to the impacts on humans of long duration spaceflight,
The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately,
There are a lot of people out there that dont believe that space tourism is viable or real. A lot of people think youve got to be NASA or youve got to be a world government to do this kind of thing. What were doing here is proving to ordinary people that you can make this happenand that personal spaceflight is just around the corner.
The New Mexico proposal was stronger, specifically on the strength of their financial bid, ... Governor Richardson is personally very excited about the whole space business and about building New Mexico into a central hub for public spaceflight.
We are very proud of our partnership with New Mexico, Las Cruses and Governor Richardson, ... We're working to make the X Prize Cup an exciting annual event that will move the industry forward at the same time that it allows the public to personally participate in the future of the personal spaceflight revolution.