Alan Thirkettle Quotes

We're desperately anxious to get Columbus up. Having 10 tons of hardware sitting around in Bremen, or even in Florida, doesn't do a lot for you. - Alan Thirkettle

The availability of more than one transportation system offers a robustness that has great advantage over reliance on a single system. We would like an independent way of getting access to the International Space Station (ISS). - Alan Thirkettle

Of course we are concerned that there might be a further change of plans. And we have established our strategy accordingly so that we can react to any potential new scenario. - Alan Thirkettle

It's like the station's arm, capable of walking from base point to base point. - Alan Thirkettle

It gave us the opportunity of completely cleaning that up and replacing it rather than doing a botch up and keeping our fingers crossed. - Alan Thirkettle

Clipper could also support exploration of the Moon. The concept could even be aimed at going much further. - Alan Thirkettle

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