Solid Rocket Engine

Famous quotes containing the words solid, rocket and/or engine:

    Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
    André Maurois (1885–1967)

    Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
    Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow.
    Andrei Voznesensky (b. 1933)

    The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)