Find Quote by Gene Kranz Download Open image “On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.” — Gene Kranz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Find First Flight Surprises Test
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for… — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting. — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
I really look forward to every single bit of it. Every time I do something in space, it will be the first time. — Victor J. Glover Copy Share Image
By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for. — Peggy Whitson Copy Share Image
I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures,… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
If you didn't like somebody, you just let 'em know it, and hopefully that would square 'em away. Not only would they critique me,… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I ask for tips, for advice. What I have also learnt is that I need to do things that are good for me. In… — Matthijs de Ligt Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses. — David Joseph Schwartz Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate. — Guler Sabanci Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Reading counts as partying, even if you're not enjoying it! Even if someone's forcing you to read, you can find a way to make… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't… — King Diamond Copy Share Image
