Top 18 Dylan Taylor Quotes

The bigger shift in space exploration won’t be commercial crew – that will be a validation of something we already knew was going to be the case. It will be when you have a fully private company launching everyday citizens. When people know people in their communities who have been to space on a daily basis.

Companies that have the capability to settle space don’t have the ambition and companies that have the ambition don’t have the capability. Voyager was founded to do something about that.

If you dream it, it can happen.

It takes a planet to explore the universe, and we invite the global community to be part of Starlab’s success.

There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.

If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company’s physical real estate, there are real consequences to its culture and cohesion.

Come year-end, there will be more capital deployed in newspace in 2016 than 2015. I see that trend continuing for the foreseeable future.

You can tell the depth of a person based on the quality of the questions they ask. We can measure the depth of humanity by a similar method. Space compels us to ask deeper questions.

By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world’s gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

Whether it’s space tourism or really interesting missions to the moon or Mars, you really need a healthy capital ecosystem to make that happen. Nation states and governments have the control, but unless the financing is sustainable, it’s hard to really keep them on that.

Until space tourism is a destination-based business (e.g. flights to a private space station or to the moon), will flyers pay to fly more than once after having earned their astronaut wings? The answer to this is likely very dependent on the experience itself.

I have the privilege of being the vice chair of the World Economic Forum’s real estate council. In that role, I review a lot of economic data and original research from around the world.

What I tell business leaders is you’re in the space industry – you just don’t know it yet. Every industry will be impacted by space. The internet would not exist without space-based communication.

Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the ‘overview effect,’ return to Earth, and then impact their communities.

In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.

It takes a planet to explore the universe.

The case for sponsorships in commercial spaceflight is compelling and could dramatically impact the economics of space tourism. Global brands are looking for fresh, new ways to position themselves on the leading edge of their categories.

People will come back and influence their communities to get excited about space. Space funding will increase because people will see the benefit it has to the way people relate to the world, the way people relate to problems, and the way people view themselves.