Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. — James Lovelock
You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne
We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude. — Linda M. Godwin
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. — John Glenn
You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn. — Duane G. Carey
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. — Marshall McLuhan
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment. — Dave Allen
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. — Marshall McLuhan
The road between South Carolina and space flight is not a very simple one. Nor is it one filled with guarantees. — Ronald McNair
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
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. — Neil H. McElroy
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. — Sally Ride
A teleporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain. — Akira Toriyama
Short Shuttle Quotes
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. — Ronald Reagan
The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills. — Dana Rohrabacher
What Do You Care What Other People Think? — Richard P. Feynman
My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle — Eileen Collins
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. — Sally Ride
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. — Ronald Reagan
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. — Linda M. Godwin
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. — Sally Ride
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride. — Chris Hadfield
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. — Robert Crippen
Shuttle Image Quotes
Space Shuttle Quotes
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
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride
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. — Rachael Ray
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
The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home. — George W. Bush
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
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. — 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. — Simon Sinek
Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle. — Annie Dillard
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons. — Michelle Alexander
Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one... — Charles Scott Sherrington
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
The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life. — Charles Fillmore
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
We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted. — John Glenn
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
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
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
Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room! — Mary Lasswell
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
. . . .
A reminiscence sing. — Walt Whitman
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. — Sally Ride
Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech prisons and then relegated to a permanent undercaste - stigmatized as undeserving of any moral care or concern. — Michelle Alexander
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live. — Adam Carolla
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
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. — Burt Rutan
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. — Sally Ride
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. — Jon Lester
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. — Robert Crippen
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 — Wally Schirra
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
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