Top 100 Quotes About Shuttle
#1. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.
Ronald Reagan
#2. 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.
Henry Spencer
#3. I probably love you," she said. I let out a surprised laugh. "Probably?" She laced our fingers together and tugged me toward the shuttle, glancing over her shoulder. "Probably. It's hard to tell with me, you know?" I laughed again. "I probably love you, too.
Amy Tintera
#4. 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.
John L. Phillips
#5. On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride
#6. The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews
that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.
Wayne Hale
#7. We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
Linda M. Godwin
#8. You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.
Lil' Wayne
#9. 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.
Linda M. Godwin
#10. 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.
Henry Spencer
#11. 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.
Christa McAuliffe
#12. We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn't much.
H.P. Lovecraft
#13. 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.
Lewis Hyde
#14. I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.
Rene Burri
#15. The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away.
Dave Eggers
#16. No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
Sally Ride
#17. If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
Aristotle.
#18. 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
#19. Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.
Alex Pareene
#20. I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
KRS-One
#21. 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.
Burt Rutan
#22. Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold
#23. The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.
Cormac McCarthy
#24. And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.
Ernest Cline
#25. 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.
Shannon Lucid
#26. Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
Robert Crippen
#27. Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!
Christina Engela
#28. 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
#29. To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
R.C. Sproul
#30. 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.
Henry Petroski
#31. So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
Philippe Perrin
#32. The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
Sally Ride
#33. I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.
Mark Roberts
#34. NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole.
Mike Mullane
#35. Taking a shuttle or even paying for a taxi to a rental office that's a few miles away from the airport can mean a lower rate - 50 percent lower is common - for the same car, from the same company, for the same length of time. Many companies run free shuttles from some of the major airports.
Jean Chatzky
#36. 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.
Marc Garneau
#37. 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.
Will Smith
#38. The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a ways, will get you there. Only you yourself can do that.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#39. Data gathered on the Shuttle and ISS help power Google Maps;
Chris Hadfield
#40. The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Robert Crippen
#41. 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.
Marc Garneau
#42. 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.
Alan G. Poindexter
#43. Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?
Eugene Cernan
#44. I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.
Helen Sharman
#45. On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.
Christopher Reeve
#46. 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.
Mike Mullane
#47. 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.
Robert Crippen
#48. Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
Sally Ride
#49. I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
Chris Hadfield
#50. 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.
Philippe Perrin
#51. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.
George W. Bush
#52. 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.
Henry Spencer
#53. 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.
Martin Rees
#54. For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.
Pierce Brown
#55. My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle
Eileen Collins
#56. Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.
Jon Lester
#57. 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.
Linda M. Godwin
#58. 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.
Sally Ride
#59. Two things can take you to the Moon: A space shuttle or a sweet love!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.
Mike Mullane
#61. The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
Hanna Rosin
#62. 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.
Wayne Hale
#63. 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.
Christa McAuliffe
#64. 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.
Eileen Collins
#65. 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.
Leroy Chiao
#66. Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads.
Dag Hammarskjold
#67. As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Stephen Fry
#68. I've got a bunch of plumbers with rifles I could put on a shuttle. The bridge went quiet.
James S.A. Corey
#69. Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride
#70. 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
#71. 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.
Umberto Guidoni
#72. 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.
Buzz Aldrin
#73. When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
Chris Hadfield
#74. Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.
Annie Dillard
#75. 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.
Pete Conrad
#76. Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
Barry S. Strauss
#78. I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.
Julie Payette
#79. 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.
Eileen Collins
#80. 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.
Christa McAuliffe
#81. The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
Arthur C. Clarke
#82. 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.
Craig Cook
#83. 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.
Hod Lipson
#84. I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
Buzz Aldrin
#85. 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.
Marc Garneau
#86. 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.
Brent Weeks
#87. Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#88. 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.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#89. 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.
Michael Lewis
#90. 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.
Jimmy Fallon
#91. 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
#92. Hey, nice landing!" Addie called, and I turned to see her standing next to her shuttle, grinning.
I laughed and shrugged my shoulders. "They're all still alive!"
"Sort of a low bar you set for yourself, huh?" Beth asked, playfully punching my shoulder as I helped her out of the shuttle.
Amy Tintera
#93. So modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
David Eagleman
#94. I remember reading that the space shuttle uses more fuel during its first three minutes after liftoff than during its entire voyage around the earth,
Robin S. Sharma
#95. 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.
George Carlin
#96. 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.
Ulrich Walter
#98. Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.
Dave Barry
#99. Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Henry Vaughan
#100. I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.
Michael Ignatieff
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