Robert Bigelow

I've spent a lot of money doing extensive research. I've spent a lot of time doing extensive research. I hope I have information the average person does not possess.

NASA is so risk-averse. That's insane for exploration.

Zero risk means zero accomplishment.

I don't think anyone could deny the excellent record and pedigree of the Atlas 5-401 as a quality choice to be upgraded to carry human passengers.

NASA stands for 'No Access to Space for Americans' - that's what it stands for to me and to most Americans.

Well, the ultimate fantasy for us is to have a cruise ship in orbit, maybe around the year 2015. A cruise ship implies that it is moving somewhere; it isn't just orbiting. A space station is a precursor to that.

NASA is an organization without a vision, and because they don't have any vision, they don't have missions that make much sense.

NASA is not that sophisticated, they're not that organized, they're not that focused.

A tourist industry in space is a natural outgrowth of such a bizarre city as Las Vegas.

The idea that NASA has exclusivity on everything off this planet is wrong.

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.

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

We would like to be part of the process of establishing a lunar station and other kinds of space outposts - maybe someday helping to support Mars ambitions.

What we've always anticipated and expected is that we would be very involved in helping foreign countries to establish their human space programs.

I'm lucky that the real estate business has been able to supply the money that the aerospace company requires.

I look at the extraterrestrial subject as phenomenally interesting.

I'm a confirmed believer in the existence of UFOs, so how could I pooh-pooh Buck Rogers stuff.

While recognising the inherent difficulty, all of us at BA are eager to begin work on an actual human spaceflight program, which is the reason that I and others began this effort in the first place.

Our company does have a lunar interest. It's obviously secondary to our activities in low Earth orbit, which we certainly want to successfully accomplish first.

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.

The last thing you want to do is handcuff yourself to an Earth solution for moving material - a strategy that would be just crazy to apply to a lunar application.

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.

The moon is a very valuable asset for a lot of reasons.

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.

Exploiting Mars, sooner or later, is going to happen. These are gigantic opportunities for the human race.

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

I hated algebra. I knew I was no good at it.

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.

The rocking chair isn't for me.

Flying to the International Space Station is a really big deal.

The main mysteries at Skinwalker were never solved. Lots of things have never been made public that we have, things that I personally initiated that we have photographs of.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I cannot say enough good things about the companies that we're working with in Russia.

NASA is not capable of administering a lot of flights and overseeing them efficiently.

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

NASA is a shadow of the space agency it once was in the 1960s and 1970s.

Zero G is very user-unfriendly as everything is just in suspension.

Gravity... is a really serious problem.

When there isn't law and order, there's chaos.

The time will come when the average citizen will be able to travel in space. If you have the money, and the time, the trips will someday be available.

I grew up here in Las Vegas.

I decided early on that I had to find some way of being involved in space and that I needed to make some money to be able to do it. Real estate was the medium.

Our business has always been to create the structures, the environment, for people to do a variety of activities, not for us to conduct those activities ourselves.

I'm like a general contractor, making sure that you have something that is useful and is affordable.

Philosophically, most commercial launchers won't want the space industry to be tied to the government. It'll be like having a national airline. Prices will always be high if we had just one company dominating the industry. We need to have more competition in the private sector.

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