Gravity Quotes
"The day they weren't tense was the day they made mistakes."
"Though still in the astronaut corps, Jack had effectively been grounded."
"Even worse, his future in spaceflight was in doubt."
"Fast-forward to the present. Here he was, back in Canaveral, no longer an astronaut but just another tourist."
"Please let this launch be one of the perfect ones."
"He laughed. 'I guarantee you, if they're awake, it's because they can't wait to climb on board that baby and blast off.'"
"At midnight, standing on the beach at Jetty Park, he gazed across the water toward pad 39B. 'I'm here,' he thought."
"Carpenter wanted his people on edge, with all synapses snapping."
"Let nothing go wrong, he thought. Not on my watch."
"In Huntsville, Alabama, at Marshall Space Flight Center, research teams were waiting for their experiments to be launched."
"And at this moment, seven people are preparing to place their lives in our hands."
"It was their reliable workhorse for decades."
"I like technology that works. Say what you want about the Russians, they knew what they were doing."
"She crashed and burned," he said. And walked out of the hangar.
"She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," Emma said softly.
"NASA home delivery service," deadpanned Commander Vance. "Your groceries have arrived."
"The dream. He imagined the crew strapped into their seats, the vehicle trembling beneath them as the chambers of liquid oxygen and hydrogen built up pressure."
"They'd been reminded of how many things can go wrong, and he could not shake off this new sense of uneasiness."
"I won't ever touch the stars, can be here to see that others do."
"The simple act of pressing your hands against a patient's can send you tumbling across the room."
"No matter what goes wrong, no matter what we suffer, we always strive to get the job done."
"I'm okay," she murmured. And repeated, irritably, "I'm okay, Jack. Don't have a cow."
"With the mask over Kenichi's mouth and nose, she squeezed the ambu-bag, forcing oxygen into his lungs."
"Every successful launch is a gift from heaven," he said. "Let's not waste this one."
"I can't see the panel!" Carpenter felt as if his blood had just frozen in his veins. Dear God, she's blind.
"Probes have been deployed," said MMACS. "She did it. She found the switch!"
"Discovery was now traveling at six hundred miles per hour, at an altitude of eight thousand feet and dropping rapidly."
"Come on, baby. You're lookin' good!" whooped Bloomfeld.
"Every shuttle landing is a celebratory event, so moving it brings tears to the eyes of those who watch from the ground."
"Landing gear isn't down!" Jack turned to him. "What?"
"Get them down. Get those wheels down!" Jack wanted to scream.
"What the hell is going on?" yelled Bloomfeld as uniformed soldiers suddenly poured out of the choppers.
"Back off! Back off!" one of the soldiers yelled.
"Every one get the fuck back now!" Rifles suddenly came up, barrels pointed at the unarmed ground crew.
"We are dealing with a serious biohazard. The White House Security Council has activated the Army's Biological Rapid Response Team."
"I'm Dr. Isaac Roman, USAMRIID," he said. "That orbiter is now a hot zone. The Army is assuming control."
"I'm going to ask you to back down now," Cornell said quietly to Gordon.
Gordon looked Cornell in the eye. "I speak for the astronauts," he said. "My people."
"Let's do it right. Press release the wire services. One mother of a tent party with champagne."
"His pelvis is fractured in three places," said Bridget. "He's gonna be confined to bed at least six weeks."
"It's going deeper!" he screamed. "Get it out! Get it now!"
"The evacuation is off," said the new Capcom. "We are experiencing difficulties with both TOPO and GNC computers."
"This organism came equipped to survive any environmental conditions. All it needs to do is raid the local fauna's DNA."
"We can't let emotions affect our decision. Not with so much at stake."
"How the hell do I condemn those people to death?" the president said sadly.
"Though the lunch had been meager, he felt satisfied."
"They eyed each other for a moment, she with wariness, he with silent apology."
"But necrotizing streptococcus has its own agenda, its own timetable for killing."
"They're eggs. Something is inside them. Something is growing."
"I'm not thinking about myself," said Emma. "I'm thinking about my patient."
"We're fighting to get you home, as soon as possible."
"They're not cysts, Jack. And they're not spores."
"I don't know how to save you, he thought. I don't even know where to begin."
"I remember her first day at Johnson," said Gordon.
"It was a shock to hear Luther's cheery voice suddenly crackle on the comm."
"We tried to stop it! The order came straight from the White House."
"What do you make of the fact Ahearn was a geologist?"
"I'll bet you this was a SeaScience vessel," said Jack.