Elon Musk says

“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”

—Elon Musk

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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”

—Elon Musk

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

—Elon Musk

“We need unifiers, not vilifiers. When you look out at the planet, there are no borders. There’s nothing. It’s one planet and we share it and it’s fragile.”

—Jeff Bezos

“It was going well until it exploded.”

—Scott Manley

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”

—Elon Musk

“It's a lot easier to build something bigger than smaller.”

—Peter Beck

“If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable.”

—Elon Musk

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

—Elon Musk

“Boring is good!”

—Peter Beck

“I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.”

—Elon Musk

“We’re going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future. And we need to do that. We need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth. It’s not about escaping.”

—Jeff Bezos

“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

—Elon Musk

“That always seemed to be the dumbest constraint you can imagine as like the dome of the rocket is set by the lowest bridge between California and Florida.”

—Peter Beck

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

—Peter Beck

“If only international politics and relations was as easy as rocket science.”

—Scott Manley