Quotes for All
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. Elon Musk
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. Ellen Ochoa
My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle Eileen Collins
[On Richard P. Feynman’s live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear … Read more
There is just no way that I can understand in God’s green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don’t put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles … Read more
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age … pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don’t want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, … Read more
I think it’s like that for people who don’t remember 1969 first-hand. It’s that sense of ‘old hat.’ Of ‘been there, done that.’ Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS – they’re all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey. David Weber
Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing. David Eagleman
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. Dana Rohrabacher
The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills. Dana Rohrabacher