Firsts Quote by Pete Conrad

Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

— Fernando Alonso

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

— Graham Hawkes

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll…

— Sally Ride

There's something just magical about flight. Period.

— Graham Hawkes

The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash.…

— Robert Crippen

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

— Chris Hadfield

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

— James Gleick

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply…

— Scott Carpenter

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

— Pappy Boyington

It was a love of perpetual flight.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

— Sally Ride

The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.

— Marcel Dionne