Astronaut Quote by Chris Hadfield

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…

— Burt Rutan

“The space shuttle Challenger disaster was a classic example of what happens when engineers are overruled by incompetent managers.”

— Steven Magee

“An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter.”

— Chris Hadfield

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after…

— Burt Rutan

Spaceflight is a tricky business. It is definitely difficult, and I think we forget that sometime.

— Kathleen Rubins

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into…

— Ulrich Walter

To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's being a…

— Michael J. Massimino

Flying commercial airlines has become an all-too-often unpleasant experience.

— Dan Lipinski

“A well-meaning team of people can sometimes make horrible decisions that no single individual would make. Groupthink, and an unwillingness to disagree with the…

— Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred…

— Robert Crippen

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

— Anne McClain

There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a…

— Sally Ride