Anything that happened to the others could happen to us.

The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately.

The track looks excellent. Our weatherman says this is just about as good a global track as we can get, and we're real excited about it, ... We really don't want to let Mr. Hilton down this time.

[The flight was going fine until] all of a sudden there was this boom, ... Dave looked at me and said, 'We're in trouble.'

The trajectory was good, the roll was off. I was worried. That wasn't the way it was supposed to be.