"My dad served in two wars has been……" — John L. Phillips
"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."
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18 Quotes by John L. Phillips
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing…
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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might…
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In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but…
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going…
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy…
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It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
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We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many…
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A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new…
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After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot…
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Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have…
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I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your…
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More Airplane Quotes
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
— Barbara Bush
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
— George Cayley
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
— Octave Chanute
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever…
— Ernest K. Gann
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