#shuttle

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. ↗

— Sally Ride

#case #during #emergency #goes #helps

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#i #launch #shuttle #superimposed #wanted

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#different #directly #down #i #looking

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. ↗

— Sally Ride

#busy #doing #experiments #lot #our

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#flight #fly #having #like #opportunity

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#camping #dirty #ended #get #had

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#escape #nature #put #shuttle #system

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#been #built #capabilities #carried #ever

At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#bay #between #cargo #cradle #into

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance