Orbiter 9 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

I always think family get-togethers when everybody just sort of crashes out are pretty much the best. If it's more than a few days it gets hard, but for just a few days, it's the most amazing thing ever. — Lauren Cohan

The often-used phrase "pay attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail. — Daniel Kahneman

Love is something that grows gradually. — Elizabeth Reyes

The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved. — Tom Althouse

Love dies in different ways. For most, it is a slow, agonizing death. Meche, however, cut her love the same way the executioner might chop a head: with a single, accurate swing. — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else. — Tim Cook

to keep the Mimics away. He carried all-natural coffee beans you couldn't find — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself. — LZ Granderson

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

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

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love. — Madeline Zima

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