“I grew up in the labs, and worked very closely with shuttle components,”
Danny Davis
“We still need the shuttle for large station components. They're simply too big to fit on (the Russian) Soyuz or Progress (spacecraft).”
Melissa Mathews
“If you think about all of the components of a shuttle, all of the thousands of little things, combined with the weather, the probability of everything working is pretty much zero.”
Steve Hawley
“I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.”
Colin Baker
“We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.”
Lincoln Davis
“If something happens to the shuttle on this one, it would be mistakenly shut down. Or [NASA would] really back off the program.”
Tom Arceneaux
“The (shuttle) program has never advertised that we would never lose any foam.”
Steven Lindsey
