17 Quotes by Brian Binnie

If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

The delay in SpaceShipTwo has not been the development of either of the vehicles. But the rocket motor has just been problematic from the get-go.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

I remember going to London with my father in 1968 to see '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I just soaked in that movie. To me, that was real; it was going to happen.

Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.

I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.

Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland.

I always liked airplanes, and I decided I was going to go to school to study them.