Attention Quote by Ellen Ochoa

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

— Christa McAuliffe

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

— Buzz Aldrin

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that…

— Linda M. Godwin

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how…

— Eileen Collins

I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we…

— David Grinspoon

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

— Mark Rober

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's…

— John M. Grunsfeld

I don't know that there's ever been a human spaceflight mission that did not have some anomaly.

— Jared Isaacman

It's unfortunate, but I know it's the right thing to do to end the shuttle program. If we want to do other things, we…

— Shannon Walker

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…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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.…

— Martin Rees

There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do…

— Mark Kelly