My worry is that if we stand down the shuttles entirely and something drastic happens on the space station, like a debris strike, for instance, the Russian support ships won't be able to respond. You can't do repairs up there without a shuttle.
Quotes about shuttles (12 Quotes)
People are already calling us and asking us can they display one of our orbiters in their museum after we're done. I'm not giving anybody anything until we're all agreed the station is complete and the shuttles' job is done.
He's got the dynamism you'd expect of a 19-year-old kid. He shuttles back and forth. He doesn't know what fear is, either. We thought he might be nervous and overawed about playing for his country, but he's shown real character and steel.
We hope that American shuttles will resume regular flights and we are offering our NASA colleagues the use of Soyuz as a rescue spaceship.
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
In health care, for example, network traffic that shuttles life-support data is given a higher priority than general e-mail traffic. And for executives who engage in videoconferencing calls, video has to have priority.
The Shuttles were nice when we fist made them in 1981, but really they are now 25 years old. ... Who out there is driving 25 year old cars These babies are classics with 100 millions miles on them. Its time to send The Shuttles to museums were they belong. I'm just glad the folks at Shuttle Trader Magazine are there to help NASA unload these turkeys.
These are the favored ones-year after year-read under dim spot lamps in taxis or air shuttles, balanced on subways, carried on boardwalks and into bathtubs. They develop broken spines, pages like prune skin or go to their reward in the land of lost umbrellas.
We're in, so we've got a chance to do it. That's the only thing that matters to us. If they have shuttles going to the moon and we have to go up there and play on the moon, we'll go do it.
Having any kind of a gap, whether it's three years or longer, between the shuttles and the CEV is really dangerous. It might make sense to an accountant, but not to a space cadet.