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Every shuttle mission's been successful.
I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.
I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.
The only reason Hubble works is because we have a space shuttle.
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.
I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself on the shuttle.
The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.
It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.
I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
I think judging a shuttle is different everywhere, so there is a drift, but you have to be used to it. We can't complain, as I think it is same for all.
Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.
Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk judgment.
Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.
After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.
I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.
The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.
It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.
The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.
The first news event I understood as a small child was the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, which President Reagan eloquently mourned from the Oval that evening.
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.
When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.
We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.
In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.