Top 176 Shuttle Quotes & Sayings

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

The only reason Hubble works is because we have a space shuttle.

On my second space walk, I was riding the Canadarm, heading down toward the payload bay of the space shuttle, and I could see the space shuttle highlighted against the Earth in the background, and there was this black, infinite, hostile void of space. I remember looking down at the Earth and thinking, "Beneath me is a 4½-billion-year-old planet, upon which the entire history of the human species has taken place." That was an incredibly humbling moment, and I had a bit of an epiphany.

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

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

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.

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

The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.

It's unfortunate, but I know it's the right thing to do to end the shuttle program. If we want to do other things, we need a different spacecraft.

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.

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

I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the space shuttle that lifts off doesn't much resemble the space shuttle as it lands.

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

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.

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

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

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.

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

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.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

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.

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle

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

I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

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.

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

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

Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.

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

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

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.

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.

When I was in high school we had the first shuttle launch, and it reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the space program. I was in awe of the space shuttle as such a tremendous machine taking people into space. It seemed like such a wonderful thing that I wanted to be a part of.

It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

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

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

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.

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.

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

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

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk judgment.

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a space flight, or the satellites that are carried up, the work that's to be done, is important and expensive work, and you are up there for a week or two on a Space Shuttle flight. The country has invested a lot of money in you and your training, and the Space Shuttle and everything that's in it, and you have to do things correctly. You can't make a mistake during that week or two that you're in space.

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.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.