Down to earth Quote by David Autor

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

— Sally Ride

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that…

— Sally Ride

Chernobyl happened in April of 1986. A few months earlier, in January 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It did not have the impact…

— Craig Mazin

Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over…

— William E. Burrows

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to…

— Martin Rees

“When NASA launched an internal investigation in the wake of the Challenger explosion, they made a startling discovery – many who worked on the…

— Brian Tracy

“The shuttle would announce its arrival with the trademark double sonic boom-- Boom, BOOM!!-- and shortly thereafter you could see the bright silvery craft…

— James D. Wright

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very…

— Wayne Hale

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting…

— Brent Weeks

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong…

— Sally Ride

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

— Robert Crippen

I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson