New Quote by Gus Grissom

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

— Sally Ride

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine,…

— Rachel McAdams

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is…

— Alan Bean

I've done so many pilots I thought were good that didn't work, and so many that I thought were bad that did work.

— Christina Pickles

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going,…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

— Ryan Sheckler

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't…

— Gus Grissom

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

— Alan Shepard

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except…

— Brenda Lee

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like…

— Alan Shepard

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and…

— Wentworth Miller