Believe Quote by Lincoln Davis

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

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

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 Americans are still the leaders in human space flight. I feel we have a danger here of kind of stagnating. We're kind of…

— Leroy Chiao

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not…

— Buzz Aldrin

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

— Christa McAuliffe

Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift…

— Leroy Chiao

By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened…

— Burt Rutan

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

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after…

— Burt Rutan

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

— Richard Branson

I don't like the way the whole thing has developed. And I just hope that we develop our own transportation system, both spacecraft and…

— John Glenn