Shuttle Quotes

109 quotes by 73 authors

And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off… — Isaac Marion
The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how… — Jake Garn
I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone… — Will Smith
When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we… — Chris Hadfield
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth… — Martin Rees
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the… — Martin Rees
It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But… — Martin Rees
My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and… — Alan G. Poindexter
I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to… — Michael Ignatieff
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting… — Buzz Aldrin
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers,… — Henry Petroski
We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights,… — Lincoln Davis
After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known… — Mark Kelly
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they… — Linda M. Godwin
I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch. — Mark Roberts
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when… — Philippe Perrin
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of… — Leroy Chiao
After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later… — Marc Garneau
Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a… — Ulrich Walter
Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people… — Linda M. Godwin

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