"We wanted to be in great shape, we……" — Alan Shepard
"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point."
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Alan Shepard
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44 Quotes by Alan Shepard
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Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
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Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little…
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Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.
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Miles and miles and miles.
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Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to…
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
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Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's…
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If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?'…
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history…
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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot…
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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school…
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