#vehicle

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#complicated #did #figured #going #i

We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#different #done #ever #flying #had

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

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#get #i #lot #much #played

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? ↗

— Thomas Mann

#been #changed #ever #magic #save

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence. ↗

— John Olver

#armor #body #criminal #incompetence #level

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war. ↗

— John Olver

#avoided #been #body #casualties #could

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem. ↗

— John Olver

#air travel #autos #broad #commercial #fuel

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. ↗

— James Payn

#bus #cultivating #driven #driving #exceptional

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#agency #been #bringing #carrying #columbia