"Each test pilot I know considers him, or……" — Wally Schirra
"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while"
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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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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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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it,…
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