Quotes about Shuttle

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being. Votes: 4

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people. Votes: 4

When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp. Votes: 4

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle Votes: 3

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. Votes: 3

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills. Votes: 3

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space. Votes: 3

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. Votes: 3

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall. Votes: 3

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle. Votes: 3

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space. Votes: 3

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out. Votes: 3

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it Votes: 3

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does. Votes: 3

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does." Votes: 3

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways. Votes: 3

After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat. Votes: 3

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization. Votes: 3

And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man. Votes: 3

Every shuttle mission's been successful. Votes: 2

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. Votes: 2

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride. Votes: 2

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. Votes: 2

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. Votes: 2

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away? Votes: 2

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it. Votes: 2

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. Votes: 2

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 people into space. Votes: 2

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime. Votes: 2

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty. Votes: 2

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip. Votes: 2

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. Votes: 2

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. Votes: 2

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. Votes: 2

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.' Votes: 2

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. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme. Votes: 2

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. Votes: 2

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. Votes: 2

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. Votes: 2

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. Votes: 2

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd. Votes: 2

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class. Votes: 2

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm. Votes: 0

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ... Votes: 0

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. Votes: 0

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. Votes: 0

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. Votes: 0

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. Votes: 0

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. Votes: 0

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. Votes: 0

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing. Votes: 0

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. Votes: 0

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. Votes: 0

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. Votes: 0

I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle Votes: 0

Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger. Votes: 0

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. Votes: 0

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. Votes: 0

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. Votes: 0

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home. Votes: 0

They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down. Votes: 0

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away? Votes: 0

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations. Votes: 0

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle. Votes: 0

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle. Votes: 0

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent. Votes: 0

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle. Votes: 0

People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle. Votes: 0

Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station. Votes: 0

NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going to be driven by aliens. Votes: 0

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle. Votes: 0

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible. Votes: 0

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime, Votes: 0

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. Votes: 0

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them. Votes: 0

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation. Votes: 0

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air. Votes: 0

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts. Votes: 0

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star. Votes: 0

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 attention that the early ones did. Votes: 0

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them. Votes: 0

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers. Votes: 0

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time. Votes: 0

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to. Votes: 0

At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay. Votes: 0

Beings with un-redeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the high causal sphere of cosmic ideas , but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds. Votes: 0

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station. Votes: 0

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet. Votes: 0

Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy. Votes: 0

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken. Votes: 0