"Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies."
American astrophysicist and science communicator. He serves as director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and has hosted and produced science programming and media. He is widely known for public education work in astronomy.