The Criticism Is, Once I Get Something

We Didn't Have Practical Model Rockets In The '50s. The Ones We Made Were Very Dangerous And The Kids That Played With Them Didn't Have All Their Fingers, And Sometimes Were Blind In One Eye.

The Criticism Is, Once I Get Something Flying, I Lose Interest In It.

To Allow Public Access To Orbit, We Would Need Breakthroughs That Would Lower The Cost By A Lot More Than An Order Of Magnitude And Increase Safety By A Factor Of 100 As Compared To Every Launch System Used Since The First Manned Space Flight. I Think Airborne Launch Will Be A Significant Part Of The Safety Solution.

There Will Be A New Industry, And We Are Just Now In The Beginning. I Will Predict That In Twelve Or Fifteen Years There Will Be Tens Of Thousands, Maybe Even Hundreds Of Thousands Of People, That Fly And See That Black Sky.

Nasa's Myriad Failures Are In Many Ways The Natural Consequence Of A Catastrophic Combination Of Bureaucracy, Monopoly, And A Calcifying Aversion To The Kind Of Risk Necessary For Innovation.