Alex Roland Quotes

We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget that they're talking about. - Alex Roland

There is no question in my mind that it would be best policy to say forget it. - Alex Roland

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job. - Alex Roland

NASA is plodding along doing what it's been doing for decades... Astronauts have been flying up there for 17-18 years, and it's hard to see what they've accomplished. - Alex Roland

In a budget crisis of its own making. - Alex Roland

I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen)... Alas, he was already discovered when I first met him. He is an excellent historian who has made an enviable reputation for himself. - Alex Roland

Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it. - Alex Roland

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