Quotes with shuttle

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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Burt Rutan NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Burt Rutan Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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