A well-meaning team of people can… - Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

“None of us is as dumb as all of us. It means that when you get a group of people together to make a critical decision, groupthink can set in. There's all this technical information, a critical decision needs to be made, and everyone starts marching in the same direction. There might be some people who think it's the wrong…

Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

“That's how a team works. You help the people around you, and everybody's better off for it. The crazy thing is that most of those guys wanted to be astronauts, too, but they never saw it as a competition. We were on the same team, where you want everyone around you to be as successful as possible, because in some…

Mike Massimino

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

Chris Hadfield

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The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

Anne McClain

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In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the…

Dan Brown

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“Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.”

Andy Weir

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NASA, like every government organization, has some bureaucracy, which can become slimmer.

Sunita Williams

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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

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“When done correctly, space travel can be quite boring. The remaining portion of the voyage went without any major stumbling blocks. The astronauts went…

J.J. Dreese

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“An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter. I didn’t miraculously become one…

Chris Hadfield