Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

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The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

— Henry Petroski

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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

— Hanna Rosin

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If we're going to complete the space station, we're going to need the shuttle. It's going to take a lot of resources.

— Warren Pattison

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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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