Robert Bigelow

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

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

“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.”

“A piece of something is better than a piece of nothing.”

“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.”

“I look at the extraterrestrial subject as phenomenally interesting.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's things I don't mind talking about and things I do mind talking about.”

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

“No one 'anything' should own the moon. But, yes, multiple entities, groups, individuals, yes, they should have the opportunity to own the moon.”

“What we've anticipated is that we would be very involved in helping other countries in establishing their space programs.”

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

“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.”

“The big worry is America is asleep and does nothing, while China comes along, lands people on the Moon, and decides, 'We might as well start surveying and laying claim, because who is going to stop us?'”

“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.”

“Ultimately, permanent lunar bases will have to be anchored to permanent commercial facilities. Without property rights there will be no justification for investment and the risk to life.”

“We want to facilitate what the dreams of people are, whether they are national dreams or corporate ambitions.”

“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.”

“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.”