Epiphany Quote by Story Musgrave

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 was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

— Jim Lovell

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

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

— Paul Allen

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job…

— Charles Duke

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of…

— Duane G. Carey

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test…

— Alan G. Poindexter

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in…

— Robert Crippen

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

— Kent McCord

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

— Alan Shepard

Always wanted to be an Air Force pilot. I must admit that was my dream.

— Mayank Agarwal