If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.