Broaden Quote by Henry Petroski

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science.…

— Henry Petroski

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

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

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

— Robert Crippen

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

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought…

— Donald A. Wollheim

“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

Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard…

— Robert A. Baker

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

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

I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.

— Santiago Calatrava