Launch Window Quotes

As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

Did I think about the risks? Of course I did. Anyone who says otherwise is not being completely honest. The amount of energy it takes to bring a spacecraft to orbital speed, and the forces it endures on re-entry, makes risk impossible to avoid.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.

Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.

You can believe or you can doubt yourself. It's the difference between a gap being one metre late that you're gonna launch, then it's three seconds and you're sat on the wheel and you're about to lose.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.