"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight……" — Robert Crippen

More First Flight Quotes

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• There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66… — Buzz Aldrin
• Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring. — Fernando Alonso
• I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it… — Sally Ride
• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight… — Georges Bernanos
• If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to… — Larry Walters
• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity… — Umberto Guidoni
• We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
• I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids. — Paula Poundstone
• The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing… — Leonardo da Vinci
• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think… — Orville Wright
• The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight. — Umberto Guidoni

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