Henry Spencer Quotes
Top 27 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henry Spencer
Henry Spencer Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Henry Spencer on Wise Famous Quotes.
Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.
Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer.
Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets.
The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.
If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.
In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.