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There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

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Frank Borman's Popular Quotes

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

- Frank Borman

The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

- Frank Borman

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

- Frank Borman

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

- Frank Borman

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you'…

- Frank Borman

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

- Frank Borman

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

- Frank Borman

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very invit…

- Frank Borman

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

- Frank Borman
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