Robert Bigelow Quotes

Robert Bigelow

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 12, 1944

The shipping industry, the automobile industry - those things are landlocked. I can't conceive of what the limits would possibly be for industries in space.

Robert Bigelow

Bigelow Aerospace doesn't sell anything, and has no plans to.

Robert Bigelow

Gravity... is a really serious problem.

Robert Bigelow

We would like to be part of the process of establishing a lunar station and other kinds of space outposts - maybe someday helping to support Mars ambitions.

Robert Bigelow

You can go into space with a couple of scuba tanks. You can go with 'big, dumb, heavy' solutions that are reliable. The higher costs come when you want to combine low mass and high reliability.

Robert Bigelow

What we've always anticipated and expected is that we would be very involved in helping foreign countries to establish their human space programs.

Robert Bigelow

I'm lucky that the real estate business has been able to supply the money that the aerospace company requires.

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I look at the extraterrestrial subject as phenomenally interesting.

Robert Bigelow

I've spent a lot of money doing extensive research. I've spent a lot of time doing extensive research. I hope I have information the average person does not possess.

Robert Bigelow

Our company does have a lunar interest. It's obviously secondary to our activities in low Earth orbit, which we certainly want to successfully accomplish first.

Robert Bigelow

If people have ever been around a construction site at night, they'll see a bunch of lights on those machines, and some service trucks there. Those service trucks aren't there just because there's nothing better to do than visit the machinery. It's because that machinery breaks down constantly on Earth, all of the time.

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Yes, our concept of lunar base construction would be to assemble various modules and propulsion/power buses in L1, and that would constitute the base.

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The moon is a very valuable asset for a lot of reasons.

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The BA-330 is three times the size of anything on the ISS.

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NASA is not capable of administering a lot of flights and overseeing them efficiently.

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Exploiting the moon, sooner or later, is going to happen: It is the perfect platform from which to jump to the rest of the solar system.

Robert Bigelow

Exploiting Mars, sooner or later, is going to happen. These are gigantic opportunities for the human race.

Robert Bigelow

The moon has a noncontaminating fuel, 20 million metric tons of helium-3, and the Earth has almost none.

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I hated algebra. I knew I was no good at it.

Robert Bigelow

I caught on to how to talk to sellers and convince them to sell to me on sweat equity. Little or no money down. The most extreme example was, I bought a couple of buildings for $140,000, and my down payment was 10 bucks.

Robert Bigelow