Launch Failure Quotes

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.

Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.