Shuttle Quotes
109 quotes by 72 authors
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Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with…
— Ronald Reagan
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The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it…
— Eileen Collins
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And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of…
— Frank Borman
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What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ...
— Francis Marion
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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
— Robert Crippen
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I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
— Chris Hadfield
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The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate…
— Wayne Hale
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Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space…
— Wayne Hale
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I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if…
— Colin Baker
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In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
— Marc Garneau
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Every shuttle mission's been successful.
— Christa McAuliffe
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I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This…
— Christa McAuliffe
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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth…
— Christa McAuliffe
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The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on…
— Christa McAuliffe
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The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not…
— Elon Musk
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have…
— Rachael Ray
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
— Sally Ride
Who Wrote These Shuttle Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 109 Shuttle Quotes, led by these top contributors: