Robert Bigelow Quotes

Robert Bigelow

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 12, 1944

When there isn't law and order, there's chaos.

Robert Bigelow

NASA is so risk-averse. That's insane for exploration.

Robert Bigelow

I decided early on that I had to find some way of being involved in space and that I needed to make some money to be able to do it. Real estate was the medium.

Robert Bigelow

I grew up here in Las Vegas.

Robert Bigelow

While recognising the inherent difficulty, all of us at BA are eager to begin work on an actual human spaceflight program, which is the reason that I and others began this effort in the first place.

Robert Bigelow

I don't think we want to be overconfident.

Robert Bigelow

Boeing's unparalleled heritage and experience, combined with Bigelow Aerospace's entrepreneurial spirit and desire to keep costs low, represents the best of both established and new space companies. The product of this relationship, the CST-100 capsule, will represent the safest, most reliable, and most cost-effective spacecraft ever to fly.

Robert Bigelow

The last thing you want to do is handcuff yourself to an Earth solution for moving material - a strategy that would be just crazy to apply to a lunar application.

Robert Bigelow

I do have patience. I can exercise substantial patience when I need to.

Robert Bigelow

NASA stands for 'No Access to Space for Americans' - that's what it stands for to me and to most Americans.

Robert Bigelow

Our business has always been to create the structures, the environment, for people to do a variety of activities, not for us to conduct those activities ourselves.

Robert Bigelow

I'm like a general contractor, making sure that you have something that is useful and is affordable.

Robert Bigelow

Zero G is very user-unfriendly as everything is just in suspension.

Robert Bigelow

There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions - I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.

Robert Bigelow

Philosophically, most commercial launchers won't want the space industry to be tied to the government. It'll be like having a national airline. Prices will always be high if we had just one company dominating the industry. We need to have more competition in the private sector.

Robert Bigelow

Commercial crew transportation has the potential to revolutionize the space industry for public and private sector entities alike.

Robert Bigelow

The unprecedented success of the Falcon 9's inaugural launch clearly demonstrates that it's possible to dramatically reduce the cost of human spaceflight operations.

Robert Bigelow

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule were developed at a cost dramatically below that of traditional cost-plus programs - this should be a wakeup call that it's time for a new way of doing business.

Robert Bigelow

The brass ring for us is having a lunar base - as a company and in conjunction with other companies, and even other, possibly, foreign entities as well.

Robert Bigelow

When I was 12 or 13, I made a commitment to myself to really get involved in something to do with space, and something to do with U.F.O.s if I ever had the money to do it.

Robert Bigelow