#orbit

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#day #entry #first #flight #fly

Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#aware #being #eight #expected #get

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#earth #had #i #looking #more

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#both #developed #directions #experimental #frontier

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. ↗

— William Hooper

#am #astronomical #chapel #chapel hill #find

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#around #case #closer #each #fixed

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. ↗

— Max Bill

#art #denied #formerly #fresh #human

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. ↗

— David Lehman

#dictate #electrons #enter #field #fixed

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#first #fly #going #had #hand

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. ↗

— Bill Nye

#burden #cargo #commercial #earth #invest