Spacecraft Quotes

Spacecraft Quote of the day

The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

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.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.

There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.