Louis D. Friedman
(7 Jul 1941 - )
American aeronautical engineer who had spent his career on civilian, military space programs, then deep space missions with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before in 1980 he left to co-found The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray. He wrote a book examining the implications of robotic interstellar precursor missions using nano-spacecraft and solar sails on future human space flight.
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Science Quotes by Louis D. Friedman (1 quote)
Space exploration is risky. It’s hard. And actually, let me say here that I feel like we need to take on more risk than we have been in space exploration. The public doesn’t like risk, and they hate failure. But failures happen. They shouldn’t happen for stupid reasons. But if they happen when you were trying something risky, you learn. That teaches you something. At least it should. And you try harder next time.
— Louis D. Friedman
On the failure of the Cosmos-1 solar sail (Jun 2005).