“We are totally prepared, both for if everything goes perfectly and if the spacecraft acts up a little bit.”
Tom Duxbury
“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
“The spacecraft was designed to settle to a pure simple spin motion around the antenna axis.”
Junichiro Kawaguchi
“You just want to hang there and let the spacecraft gradually adjust the asteroid's course.”
Stanley Love
“It's the fastest spacecraft ever launched. It will get to the Moon in nine hours?it will get to Jupiter in one year and nine months.”
Colleen Hartman
“Because we have such a long way to go, we put this small spacecraft on one of the largest rockets the U.S. has in its inventory.”
Glen Fountain
