Station Breaker Quotes

“My life depends on a bunch of hipsters retweeting a plea from a man probably sitting on a Yoga ball right now.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“Although the crew of Skylab 4 did a kind of mutiny back in 1973 when they thought they were being pushed too far. Ultimately they returned to work; although NASA never let any of the men fly again.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“Fun fact: the first manmade object in space was a Nazi V2 rocket in 1942. Space historians and people who like to remind you how there would be no private space industry without NASA tend to gloss over how much those goose-stepping assholes contributed to rocket technology.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“Blending in isn't too difficult if you wear the Southern "regular guy" uniform of khaki shorts, baseball cap and fisherman sunglasses with a strap running around the back.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“The President?" "No. Somebody with real power.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“This is funny," she says without a trace of laughter.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're still in that early phase like the internet in the 1990s. Yes, they know space is an industry now. Sure, they may know of someone who is peripherally involved. But they don't realize how big things are going to get.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“I’m not a spy. I’m not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I’m pretty sure if my life depends on doing parkour across rooftops,”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“In space there's no way to ground an electric current. If you have stray voltage, it'll find a path, no matter what.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker

“What matters is our velocity. At this speed, the friction from hitting those air molecules so fast it's hotter than an industrial furnace.”
― Andrew Mayne, Station Breaker