“ This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and ma… Dayna S. Rubin
“ Space is dangerous. It's what we do here. If you want to play it safe all the time, go join an insurance company. Andy Weir
“ Together the five orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour have flown a total of 133 successful missions, an unequaled accomplishment of engineering, management, and political… Margaret Lazarus Dean
“ Histories of the Kennedy Space Center acknowledge without exaggeration that the obstacle posed by the mosquitoes was so serious that NASA quite literally could not have put a man on the moon by Kenned… Margaret Lazarus Dean
“ If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eigh… Margaret Lazarus Dean
“ Discovery first flew in 1984, the third orbiter to join the fleet. It was named for one of the ships commanded by Captain James Cook. Space shuttle Discovery is the most-flown orbiter; today will be i… Margaret Lazarus Dean
“ Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union have we learned that the Soviets were in fact developing a moon rocket, known as the N1, in the sixties. All four launch attempts of the N1 ended in explosi… Margaret Lazarus Dean
“ Here is one way to conceptualize NASA's heroic era: in 1961, Kennedy gave his "moon speech" to Congress, charging them to put an American on the moon "before the decade is out." In the eight years tha… Margaret Lazarus Dean
“ I am, like you, travelling along a road of absolute uncertainty and chaos. The only truth is that one day, we will all reach the end. M.E. Ellington
“ I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a he… Celia Rivenbark
“ There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. Margot Lee Shetterly
“ The complete Apollo team...directly involves slightly over 400,000 people...Included are some if the country's foremost scientists and engineers. This mobilization of men and resources is unprecedente… Martha Lemasters
“ With an accelerated schedule of launch in just two months, NASA and contractor launch and support teams labor steadily with six-day work weeks by day and night shifts Martha Lemasters
“ Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York wi… George Alec Effinger
“ On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as “bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentia… David G. Wells
