“Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't goin...” — Henry Spencer Quote

“Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.”

“Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.”

“Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.”

“Even on tour, I spend two hours a night singing songs and the rest of the time staring at the back of people's heads on airplanes, some fat guy coughing on me.”

“Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.”

“Like the producers of crops, airplanes, and books, producers of natural gas provide goods to meet the size of their available market. The larger the market, the more they can produce, and the more revenue they can obtain to cover their fixed costs and invest in future development.”