Aircraft Quote by Edgar Mitchell

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought…

— Donald A. Wollheim

“Nothing did more during these years to excite such emotions than the successful launching by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 of Sputnik,…

— James T. Patterson

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans…

— David Hoffman

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

— Jim Lovell

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being…

— Philippe Perrin

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human…

— Michael J. Massimino

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

— Wally Schirra

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in…

— Robert Crippen

All my life, everything important that had ever happened had always happened somewhere else. But Sputnik was right there in front of my eyes…

— Homer Hickam

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of…

— Duane G. Carey

“Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program…

— Ken Hollings