Alan Shepard Quotes

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• Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
• Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.
• Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.
• Miles and miles and miles.
• Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one…
• The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind…
• Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if…
• If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No,…
• You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to…
• The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough…
• I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in…
• And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in…
• I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do…
• I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I…
• We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
• When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
• I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And…
• Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry…
• So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space,…

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