Wally Schirra Quotes

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• You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in…
• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth…
• I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.
• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
• He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
• Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down…
• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way…
• I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading…
• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going…
• Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it
• When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he…
• When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the…
• When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd…
• Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an…
• I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes…
• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
• I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough…
• I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars to know that…
• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to…
• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make…

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