"Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had……" — Wally Schirra
"Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane."
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Wally Schirra
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29 Quotes by Wally Schirra
Wally Schirra has 29 quotes on this site.
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You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes,…
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should…
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I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's…
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or…
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for…
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good.…
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Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just…
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's…
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up,…
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More Airplane Quotes
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
— Gordon Bethune
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
— Barbara Bush
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
— George Cayley
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
— Octave Chanute
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever…
— Ernest K. Gann
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