I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
I don't think we're wasting people in space.
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.
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.
There's going to be space travel at some point.
That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.