Orbiter Quotes & Sayings

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him. — Duane G. Carey

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart. — Samuel Smiles

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money. — Frankie Boyle

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives. — Robert Jenson

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter. — Duane G. Carey

I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because the process of submitting them depressed me. I really enjoy revising novels, but drafting them can be a pain. — Sefi Atta

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space. — Rene Burri

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music. — Tim McGraw

I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that. — Kevin A. Ford

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you. — Alan G. Poindexter

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me ... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter. — Duane G. Carey