QUOTABLES “H ow thrilled my parents would be if they could see this today.” – Bill Boeing Jr., son of the company’s founder, after visiting the Everett, Wash., factory and seeing the high volume of airplanes currently being produced. Boeing, now 90, also spoke with members of the 2013–2014 class of the Leadership Development Excellence Program. Boeing News Now, June 28 “T uck this moment away in your heart … we’re going beyond Earth’s orbit again … and this is the beginning.” – NASA Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier, speaking at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans during a ribbon-cutting for a major Boeing welding tool to be used in production of the Space Launch System, NASA’s next heavy-lift rocket. Boeing is building the rocket’s core stage. Boeing News Now, June 25 “It could ripple throughout the aerospace industry and change the way we do business.” – Stephen Gaddis, program manager of the Game Changing Development Program at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., talking about the successful testing of a large, lighter-weight and less expensive cryogenic fuel tank developed by Boeing and made of composite materials. Huntsville Times, July 2 BEOING FRNOT IERS / AUGUST 2013 9
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