Shuttle Quotes

Every shuttle mission's been successful. — Christa McAuliffe

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle. — Helen Sharman

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

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. — Jon Lester

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. — Arthur C. Clarke

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch. — Mark Roberts

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride

The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom. — Cormac McCarthy

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle — Eileen Collins

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

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle. — Annie Dillard

Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger. — Dave Barry

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

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills. — Dana Rohrabacher

In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainment. — Beatrice Rose Roberts

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. — Linda M. Godwin

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

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. — Robert Crippen

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space. — Rene Burri

They didn't tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down. — Buzz Aldrin

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. — Sally Ride

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm. — Linda M. Godwin

I've got a bunch of plumbers with rifles I could put on a shuttle. The bridge went quiet. — James S.A. Corey

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away? — Eugene Cernan

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

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it. — Hanna Rosin

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

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home. — George W. Bush

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. — 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

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. — Henry Vaughan

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil' Wayne

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ... — Francis Marion

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. — R.C. Sproul

We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn't much. — H.P. Lovecraft

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride. — Chris Hadfield

Data gathered on the Shuttle and ISS help power Google Maps; — Chris Hadfield

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. — Robert Crippen

I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle — KRS-One

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what."
~'Dr. Michael C. Anders, — Stephanie Osborn

Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads. — Dag Hammarskjold

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. — Sally Ride

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

Two things can take you to the Moon: A space shuttle or a sweet love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations. — Buzz Aldrin