Quotes About Shuttle

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

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

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

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

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

until I'm safely away, please?" Tessa stopped at the big, solid shuttle

ferried across

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.

If you ever care to see how all the world's most awful jokes spread, spend a day on a bond trading desk. When the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated, six people called me from six points on the globe to explain that NASA stands for "Need Another Seven Astronauts.

Nelcar looked at him curiously. "How'd you get out of the colony? They must have been after you." "I .... er, borrowed a shuttle that was parked outside the Legion Club." Califa gaped at him. "You stole a Coalition shuttle? From right in front of the Legion Club?" "That's where it was," Dax explained reasonably.

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.

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

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.

The Marshal scooped up the dead vampire's hammer and brained the last remaining raider with it. Maud remembered to breathe. The Marshal sprinted to the shuttle. Sparring with him would be amazing. She could go all out without holding back.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

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

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

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.

We have fans that circulate air in the cabin of the module of the space shuttle. They're running all the time. They're absolutely necessary because, otherwise, you will breathe your own CO2 and intoxicate yourself quite fast.

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 quite an achievement.

An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.

Eve felt the shuttle dive, simply closed her eyes. Nothing made sense about being thousands of feet over an ocean. It was insanity. The human race was just bat-shit crazy.

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.

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