Spacecraft Maintenance Quotes

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.

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

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

It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.

I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

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

Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

The training flow for the space station is a year-and-a-half to two years.

If anything, when you're up in space and you're inside a space ship, which is your home, and without which you would not survive, you know that Earth is your home. This is the only place you can return. In fact we're very meticulous. Part of our job is to maintain the spaceship. If we apply the same kind of model to Earth maybe we'd have a different outlook.

We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn't feel it was safe enough for myself.