"You've done it in the simulator so many……" — Alan Shepard
"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
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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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