I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. - Alan Shepard

If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.