(39 quotes found)
“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
“You know, from the outside, this is a darn impressive spacecraft.”
Bill McArthur
“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
“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
“With this spacecraft, we never had a quiet cruise to Mars. We didn't do just basic maintenance, we conducted major science and engineering calibrations to test how well the instruments were doing in space. These activities help shorten the learning curve for us when we get to Mars and start mapping.”
Cindy Schulz
“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
“We are totally prepared, both for if everything goes perfectly and if the spacecraft acts up a little bit.”
Tom Duxbury
“We took a spacecraft and flew it five years. But in these five years, we went back to the origin of time - to the origin of our solar system.”
“This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of manned spacecraft Shenzhou-5.”
Wang Yongzhi
