Facts Quote by Sally Ride

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

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

— Leroy Chiao

I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things…

— Shannon Lucid

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

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

— Marcel Dionne

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

— Chris Hadfield

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

— Noel Coward

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on…

— Buzz Aldrin

I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really…

— Steven Amsterdam

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The fascination of flight can't be expressed with words. But it really lies beyond the capabilities of human endeavor. Once you've experienced it, you'll…

— Friedrich Oblessor

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