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Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

Private jets cost a lot of money.

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.

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

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.