Ulrich Walter Quotes

Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

We deal with emergencies on a regular basis out here in the Plain States.

To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination.

I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.

Emergency dance party--go away.

Make the best of an emergency.

I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where is the free-wheeling debate on this question? Only one force can stop this mission: the will of the American people. They have not been asked. Do they want to endanger their loved ones, their industry with this launch? One force is more powerful than plutonium, the spirit of the American people united.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?