Louis Friedman Quotations

Imagine hoisting a sail and being out there in space. It's a beautiful idea, and it conjures up the idea of the great sailing ships and whole notion of exploration.

Resources in space may one day be useful in space. But you're not going to revolutionize the economy on Earth.

Joining with the National Space Society to provide additional opportunity for the space-interested public to be involved is important now.

We have been listening for alien signals for decades. It's time we started to watch for signals as well.

Everything we pour into the shuttle is an investment in the past.

These deaths are huge because of the symbolism.

The strong support for space exploration in the Congress is very welcome, especially at a time when there are so many other budget pressures.

The shuttle was a terrific technical success, but it was a programmatic disaster.

If you don't keep the Mars mission out front, people are going to ask, why are we returning to the moon? It's got to be because we're extending ourselves into the solar system.

If Congress had not restored the funding, the opportunity for reaching the last unvisited planet in our solar system would have been lost for a generation.