6 Quotes by Ken Cockrell

If we don't do it correctly, we lose the vehicle and ourselves.

Welcome to all of you, and especially Yury, Susan and Jim. It's great to have you back on Earth.

We have a big and challenging mission ahead of us. We are looking forward to getting started on it.

We have a 31,000 module about 30 feet long, 14 feet in diameter, and we have to have it within 2 degrees of wobble to being perfectly lined up or it won't work.

We try not to think of the cost of the lab. It's certainly not something we could pay back if we ruined it.

The last flight I was on, the hatch wouldn't open. I was the commander of that flight. I was treated like any manager on the ground. I was asked my ideas by top-level NASA managers.