Flight Quote by Linda M. Godwin

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

— Chris Hadfield

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the…

— Ellen Ochoa

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out…

— Leroy Chiao

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

— Christa McAuliffe

Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international…

— Wayne Hale

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

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

— Felix Baumgartner

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

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

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once…

— Linda M. Godwin

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used…

— Mark Kelly