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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

— Bill Frist

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

— Eugene Cernan

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

— Randy Forbes

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

— Steve Jurvetson

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

— Peter Diamandis

The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.

— Kevin A. Ford

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

— Bill Nye

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

— Elon Musk

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

— Robert Zubrin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

— Graham Hawkes

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

— Scott Carpenter