Gone Quote by Sally Ride

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

— Sally Ride

Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over…

— William E. Burrows

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind…

— Burt Rutan

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of…

— Marc Garneau

“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

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

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to…

— Martin Rees

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut…

— Chris Hadfield

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

— Eileen Collins

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

— Robert Crippen

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

— Anne McClain

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to…

— Henry Petroski