Quotes by Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

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I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain c — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Here is one way to conceptualize NASA's heroic era: in 1961, Kennedy gave his "moon speech" to Congress, charging them t — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union have we learned that the Soviets were in fact developing a moon rocket, know — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Russia, Hermann Olberth in Germany, and Robert Goddard in the United States all came up with a — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Discovery first flew in 1984, the third orbiter to join the fleet. It was named for one of the ships commanded by Captai — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Histories of the Kennedy Space Center acknowledge without exaggeration that the obstacle posed by the mosquitoes was so — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Together the five orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour have flown a total of 133 successful — Margaret Lazarus Dean, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight