Fritz Lang Quotes

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.

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

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.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

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.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.