Shuttle Quotes - page 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. (Sam Kinison)
(8 hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster) View quote
Ken MacLeod
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. View quote
Will Smith
When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger. View quote
Sally Ride
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. View quote
Sally Ride
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. View quote
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 had gone wrong. View quote
Sally Ride
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. View quote
Sally Ride
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. View quote
Sally Ride
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. View quote
Sally Ride
The view of Earth is spectacular. The shuttle is pretty close to Earth. It only flies between 200 and 350 miles above Earth. So it's really pretty close. So we don't see the whole planet, like the astronauts who went to the moon did. So we can see much more detail. We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. It's just a lot of fun and very interesting to look out the window. (Sally Ride)
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. View quote
Simon Sinek
Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure. View quote
Annabella Sciorra
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.' View quote
Chris Hadfield
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride. View quote
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 attention that the early ones did. View quote
Ellen Ochoa
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it. View quote
Hanna Rosin
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. View quote
John L. Phillips
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. View quote
John L. Phillips
I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle. View quote
Julie Payette
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. (Linda M. Godwin)
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle. View quote
Linda M. Godwin
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. View quote
Marc Garneau
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. View quote
Marc Garneau
My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks. View quote
Alan G. Poindexter