Better Quote by Leroy Chiao

“Even NASA’s most respected engineers have admitted to me, in private, that designing and building a supersonic airliner was a greater technological challenge than…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I met lot of fighter pilots and heard their breathtaking experiences. They risk their lives for our well being. Not many understand the risks…

— Karthi

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led…

— Alan Shepard

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

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge…

— Chuck Yeager

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

— Elon Musk

I've had friends who did pilots, and I'd say, 'What happened to that?' and they'd say, 'It didn't go,' and it literally goes into…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

— Robert Crippen

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

— Simon Newcomb

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's…

— Lily Koppel

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

— Gene Kranz

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

— Adolf Galland