Quotables

Frontiers April 2016 Issue

“It would readily change the world— like the cellphone and the computer—if we could routinely fly in and out of space.” —Kevin Bowcutt, Boeing’s chief scientist for hypersonics and a Senior Technical Fellow in Huntington Beach, Calif., talking about his vision for a hypersonic “space plane.” See story, Page 40. “ISS is the cornerstone to deep-space exploration and a test bed for cuttingedge research and technology development that will enable human exploration of destinations beyond low Earth orbit.” — Mark Mulqueen, International Space Station (ISS) program manager, following the return of U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly after a year of living in the space station. Boeing News Now, March 2 “We assembled the first 747 in snowstorms as they were constructing the building around us.” — Dwight Bates, one of about 50,000 employees who worked together to build the first 747 in the late 1960s at the new Everett, Wash., factory. They became known as the “Incredibles.” Read his story and those of others on Boeing’s centennial story sharing website at boeing.com/our-stories. See a related video at boeing.com/frontiers/videos/april16. APRIL 2016 | 09 QUOTA B L ES


Frontiers April 2016 Issue
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