Firsts Quote by Robert Crippen

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led…

— Alan Shepard

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

— Chris Hadfield

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future…

— Fred Haise

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.

— Gene Kranz

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

— Yuri Gagarin

I think every test pilot's dream is to be on the start of something that's brand new.

— Sunita Williams

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

When I was in high school we had the first shuttle launch, and it reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the space program. I was in…

— Shannon Walker

We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts.…

— Robert Crippen

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

— Stephen Hawking

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

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

— Arthur C. Clarke