“We did a bottoms-up look at every possible shape, from a spacecraft with wings, to lifting bodies, to gum drops like Russia's Soyuz. The physics drove us back to the (Apollo) capsule.”
Brian Anderson
“Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor”
Werner von Braun
“Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas.”
Dario Izzo
“When you get below a certain level you have concerns about overheating the spacecraft or potentially breaking pieces of it off,”
Richard Cook
“When you get below a certain level you have concerns about overheating the spacecraft or potentially breaking pieces of it off.”
“The five solid rocket boosters are burning just fine, sending the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to the very edge of our solar system.”
Bruce Buckingham
“The spacecraft has been programmed to continue even in the event of an emergency. We don't want Cassini to call home if a problem arises, we want it to keep going.”
Robert Mitchell
