#manned

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#animalistic #any #back #because #catholic

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#back #called #cancelled #ended #got

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space. ↗

— Lincoln Davis

#continue #every #example #flights #follow

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#century #convinced #development #i #i am

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ↗

— Richard Perle

#assign #commander #computer #could #done

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#age #available #cities #fueled #golden

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost. ↗

— Burt Rutan

#develop #extremely #goal #low #manned

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#biological #bomb #borders #bring #could