WORKING TOGETHER TO ADVANCE SPACE DEVELOPMENT

IMMORTAL:

John F. Kennedy, Rice University (Sept. 12, 1962) - "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11) - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."


D.C. DECISION-MAKERS

Scott Pace - “It bears repeating: Outer space is not a ‘global commons,’ not the ‘common heritage of mankind,’ not ‘res communis,’ nor is it a public good,”

John Marburger - Goddard Memorial Symposium speech - " As I see it, questions about the vision boil down to whether we want to incorporate the Solar System in our economic sphere, or not."

(Jim Muncy) -

(Bill Gerstenmeier) -

Barak Obama - "Now, I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned. But I just have to say pretty bluntly here: We’ve been there before. Buzz has been there."


SPACE AGENCY ADMINISTRATORS:

Charles Bolden - "NASA is not going to the Moon with a human as a primary project probably in my lifetime."

(Lori Garver) - “I think it’s a mess to assume that NASA has to be all about humans going into deep space to be important and of value, and I think that is the mess of Apollo.”

Bridenstine - "The LCROSS mission was a game changer. [Once water had been found the United States] should have immediately as a nation changed our direction to the moon so we could figure out how to use it."

(Mike Griffin) - "The best propellant depot you'll ever have is the upper stage of your heavy lift rocket".

Johann-Dietrich Woerner - "Moon Village is not the colonization of the moon. I don’t want to move people away from the Earth to live on the moon."


WEALTHY:

Musk - "We'll probably have a base on the moon before going to Mars." (Popular Mechanics)

Bezos - "Earth will be zoned residential and light industrial. You shouldn't be doing heavy energy on earth. We can build gigantic chip factories in space."

Bigelow -

Naveen Jain - "Today, people look at diamonds as this rare thing on Earth. Imagine telling someone you love her by giving her the moon."

Steve Jurvetson - "Water ice just discovered on the surface of the moon, a game-changer for the cost of Moon Base Alpha."

Richard Branson -


ASTRONAUTS:

Buzz Aldrin -

Jack Schmitt -

Leroy Chao -


SPACE TOURISTS:

Anoushah Ansari -

Dennis Tito -

Charles Simonyi -

Richard Garriott -


NASA EMPLOYEES:

Steve Squires -


TECHNICAL EXPERTS:

(Phil Metzger) -

(John Mankins) -

(Michelle Hanlon) -


COMPANY OWNERS:

(Dave Masen) -


SPACE HISTORIANS:

John Logsdon -

Roger Launius -


HARD SCIENCE FICTIONS WRITERS:

Robert Heinlein - “Get to low-Earth orbit and you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.”


SCIENCE EDUCATORS:

Bill Nye -

Carl Sagan -

Neil De Grasse Tyson -


SPACE YOUTUBERS:

Amy Shira (Vintage Space) -

Jamie -

Andrew Chaiken -

Tim Dodd - The Everyday Astronaut -

Marcus House -


SPACE BLOGGERS:



OTHER SPACE ADVOCATES:

Robert Zubrin -

Greason? -

(Rick Tumlinson) -

Doug Plata - "The moon is a legitimate destination in its own right. In establishing humanity's first permanent foothold off Earth, we can accomplish something as historically significance as the discovery of the New World."

(Al Globus) -

(Howard Bloom) -

Dennis Wingo - "It is my firm conviction that the industrialization of the moon is the necessary and logical first goal of the second American space age."

(Greg Autry) -

(Isaac Arthur) -

John Spencer (Space Tourists Society) -

(Chris Carbury) -

(Madhu Thangavelu) -

Rod Pyle -

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