Astronaut Quote by Chuck Yeager

“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.” quote by Chuck Yeager — Download Open image

“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”

Chuck Yeager

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I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

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It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

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As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We…

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I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No.…

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The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

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You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

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