Steve Young Quotes

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

Every job carries occupational hazards.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

Injuries are part of the job.

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.

It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

Our schedule is intense. We do this for five nights a week, so injuries can happen very easily with the demands of the job. It's just the nature of what we do and sports in general.