“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
“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
“If the observed reconnections were patchy, one or more spacecraft most likely would not have encountered an accelerated flow of particles. Furthermore, patchy and random reconnection events would have resulted in different spacecraft detecting jets directed in different directions, which was not the case.”
Dr. Tai Phan
“Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.”
Nicholas Johnson
“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
“I've launched other spacecraft on Delta rockets and I've always said after the launch it's a joyful ride,”
Dennis McCarthy
“Galileo is one of the most successful outer worlds missions that the Earth has ever launched. This spacecraft has given us some unbelievable discoveries.”
Colleen Hartman
