92 Quotes About Nasa

I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive for their slide rules. For several months after that, my standard response to statements like "We must implement multi-processor object-oriented Java-based client-server technologies immediately!" was "You know, FORTRAN and slide rules put men on the moon and got them back safely multiple times."Tended to shut them up, at least for a moment.

SpaceX is destroying professional astronomy.

The USA took a Nazi bombing project and turned it into NASA.

On the same day as the USA returned to manned spaceflight in 2020, there were protests and riots in many American cities.

As the USA was returning to manned spaceflight in 2020, it was ironic that we were rapidly approaching the end of the biologically toxic Space industry.

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

NASA is the civilian face of a military space program.

Of course, Apollo was the god who carried the fiery sun across the sky in a chariot. But beyond that, how would you carry fire? Carefully, that's how, with lots of planning and at considerable risk. It is a delicate cargo, as valuable as moon rocks, and the carrier must always be on his toes lest it spill. I carried the fire for six years, and now I would like to tell you about it, simply and directly as a test pilot must, for the trip deserves the telling.

If NASA was an airline, the FAA would have shut it down.