You never wanted to be an astronaut when you were a kid, Scully?
Guess I missed that phase.
“Space” · Season 1, Episode 8
In this episode: Fox Mulder (4), Dana Scully (3)
[about seeing a shuttle launch from the control room] I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.
Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.
Why would somebody want to sabotage the Space Shuttle?
Well, if you were a terrorist, there probably isn't a more potent symbol of American progress and prosperity. And if you're an opponent of big science, NASA itself represents a vast money trench that exists outside the crucible and debate of the democratic process. And of course there are those futurists who believe the Space Shuttle is a rusty old bucket that should be mothballed. A dinosaur spacecraft built in the 70's by scientists setting their sights on space in an ever declining scale.
And we thought we could rest easy with the fall of the Soviet Union.
Not to mention certain fringe elements who accuse our government itself of space sabotage. The failure of the Hubble Telescope and the Mars Observer are directly connected to a conspiracy to deny us evidence.
Evidence of what?
Alien civilization.
Oh. Of course.
Hey, Scully, we send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe, and we don't even know what's behind them.
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