Fitness Quote by Victor J. Glover

I was stationed at the flight test center at Wright-Patterson, and I was flying a wide range of airplanes and giving them a lot…

— Gus Grissom

After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a…

— Chesley Sullenberger

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

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes.…

— Buzz Aldrin

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

— Patty Jenkins

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

— Chesley Sullenberger

I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.

— Adam Cole

I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s…

— Wally Funk

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a…

— Emily Robison

I kind of grew up around planes.

— Karen Pence

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

— Douglass North

I studied physics as an undergraduate, and after I graduated from Rice University, I was actually hired at the Johnson Space Center as a…

— Shannon Walker