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Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.