Space Quote by Sally Ride

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

After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always…

— Mark Kelly

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

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

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

— Robert Crippen

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

— Gene Kranz

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

— 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

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

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

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

— Helen Sharman

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